National Means cum Merits Scholarship (NMMS) scheme is to identify the excellent students from economically weaker sections for class 8^th and enable them to continue their studies and complete secondary education. Teachers' responsibility is of vital significance in the development of society. The study's objective was to find out teachers' responsibility in students' participation in the scholarship examination among government schools. The investigator adopted a descriptive survey method, and samples have been randomly selected from 50 government secondary school teachers in Salem district. Statistical techniques used are Mean, Standard Deviation, 't' test and 'F' test. The major findings of this study are that there was a significant difference between teachers' responsibility in the participation of students in the scholarship examination among government schools of their locality (t=6.25, p<0.01), with educational qualifications (t=17.07, p<0.01), and teaching experience (t=4.30, p<0.01). The recommendation of this study is that the government shows more interest to the secondary school students to get awareness about NMMS examination; all government schools must provide the model reference books for NMMS examination; and it will help the curriculum planners to make the needed changes in the text books by making provision for varied contents related to the competitive examination of the students.