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National Scholarships

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, India, provides 500 scholarships every year to students with disabilities. Of this, students with visual imapirments are provided 115 scholarships (70 to male students and 45 to female students).

Objective

• To provide financial assistance to disabled students for pursuing higher and technical education
• To support students in acquiring special aids and appliances for studies

Eligibility

• Any Indian citizen
• Matriculation/secondary or any higher examination from a recognised board or university
• Monthly family income of the beneficiary should not be more than Rupees 15,000 from all sources. Family income will include income of the parent and in their absence income of the guardian.
  

Number of scholarships

500 through institutions in which students will undertake the study. Awards will be given to different categories of disabled students in following number:

• Students with orthopaedic disability
  70 awards (male students) 45 awards (female students)
• Students with visual disability
  70 awards (male students) 45 awards (female students)
• Students with hearing disability
  70 awards (male students) 45 awards (female students)
• Students with low vision, cerebral palsy and disabilities other than above
  90 awards (male students) 65 awards (female students)

Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment issues advertisements every year in the month of May in newspapers, and through Doordarshan, seeking applications for awards.

Amount of scholarship

It varies for different courses and also depends on the availability of hostel/residential facility with the institution. The details are given below:

• Ph D/M and post graduate/graduate level courses in Engineering/Indian and other systems of medicine/Agriculture/Veterinary/IT/Biotechnology, Education Management/Architecture, Physiotherapy, Music and other professional courses
  Scholarship for hostlers (Rupees per month): 1,000
  Scholarship for day scholars (Rupees per month): 700
• Diploma and certificate level professional courses
  Scholarship for hostlers (Rupees per month): 700
  Scholarship for day scholars (Rupees per month): 400

The awardees will also be re-imbursed the course fee subject to a ceiling of Rupees 10,000 per year. Besides students living in the hostel/residential facility provided by the institutions, those students will also be considered hostlers who live in an accommodation hired at least by a group of 3 students living together with common mess arrangements. Such students will have to furnish a certificate in this regard countersigned by head of the institution.

More information

• Candidate needs to submit a disability certificate as per the definition of disability under the Persons with Disability Act 1995.
• Financial assistance is given for the study of recognised post matric/post secondary courses in recognised institutions and for one course to one student.
• Financial assistance is also given for the purchase of a computer with editing software for blind and deaf graduate and postgraduate students pursuing professional courses and purchase of support access software for cerebral palsied students.
• Application to be made through head of the institution in which applicant is enrolled for study. The format is given below for your assistance.
• Continuation/renewal of the award for next year will depend on successfully completing the course in the preceding year with minimum 50 percent marks. Application for renewal/continuation of award should be sent to the National Fund after successful completion of the academic year through the institution in which the scholarship holder is enrolled. The application form for renewal/continuation of award is given in here below for your assistance.
• Assistance will not be available for the courses having duration of less than one year.
• A scholarship holder under this scheme will not hold any other scholarship/stipend. If awarded any other scholarship/stipend, the student can exercise his/her option for choosing the scholarship and inform awarding authority about the same.
• The scheme will be implemented by National Fund for People with Disabilities.

Send your applications to:
The Secretary
National Fund for People with Disabilities
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
DRC-CACU
4, Vishnu Digamber Marg,
New Delhi 110002

Download application form
Download continuation / renewal form

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