National Scholarship for Students with Disabilities

II. Awards :

Upto five hundred awards are to be given annually through institutions in which students are pursuing studies/courses. Scholarship will be given to different.categories of disabled students as under:

(1) Students with orthopedic disability:

Male Students : 58 Awards

Female Students : 58 Awards

(2) Students with blindness or low vision

Male Students : 58 Awards

Female Students : 58 Awards

(3) Students with hearing disability:

Male Students : 58 Awards

Female Students : 58 Awards

(4) Students with Cerebral palsy. Mental Retardation Multiple Disabilities, Profound or Severe Hearing Impairment :

Male Students : 76 Awards

Female Students : 76 Awards

Total 150 awards for male students and 250 for female students.

Amount of scholarship will vary among courses and will also depend of availability on hostel/residential facility with the institution. The details are given below:

III. The students will also be reimbursed the course fee subject to a ceiling of Rs. 10,000/- per year.

Besides students living in the hostel/residential facility provided by the institutions, those students will also be considered as hostelers who live in accommodation hired at least by a group of 3 students living together with common mess arrangement. Such students will have to furnish a certificate in this regard countersigned by the head of the institution and a certificate from the owner of the house in case of own arrangement or accommodation taken on rent.

IV. Applications for the scholarship is required to he submitted in as per the prescribed proforma as per (Annexure ‘A’). Applications for renewal/continuation of award are to be submitted in the prescribed proforma as per (Annexure ‘B’). No other proforma is to be adopted for making the application.  The  last  date  for  receipt  of  application for  new   cases as well as renewal/continuation is 31 Aug, 2009.

V. List of enclosures (attested copies only):

(i) Academic records (attested copy of certificates and Mark sheets – metric & above).

(ii) Family Income Certificate/ Proof of annual income, e.g. Salary Slip, last Income tax Assessment order

(iii) attested copy of Disability Certificate

(iv) Course fee receipt (if any) with break up of each item duly paid during the academic session

(v) Hostel Certificate or certificate from the house owner in case of accommodation hired by at least by a group of 3 students living together with common mess arrangements.

VI. Applications for the scholarship may be sent to the National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation (Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Govt. of India), Red Cross Bhawan, Sector-12, Faridabad-121007 (Haryana)

A Student should submit only one application along with all the relevant documents together with recommendations of the Institute concerned.

Applications for the award of scholarship will be countersigned and recommended by the head of the institution in which the applicant is enrolled to study. Details and forms can also be downloaded from the Ministry’s website www.socialjustice.nic.in or website of NHFDC www.nhfdc.org or may be obtained from National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation (Ministry of Sociai Justice & Empowerment, Govt. of India), Red Cross Bhawan. Sector-12, Faridabad-121007 (Haryana).

Applications received after the last date i.e. 31.08.2009 and incomplete applications (without requisite documents) will not be considered.

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