Scheme of National Scholarship For Students with Disabilities

  • Eligibility
  • Award details
  • Application form for New cases
  • Application form for Renewal/Continuation
  • List of required enclosures
To ensure that the students with disabilities who have fair access to higher and technical education, 3% seats in educational institutions are reserved for them. Besides, the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment supports 500 Scholarships for students for pursuing their studies at Post School Level.

The object of this scheme is to provide financial assistance to disabled students for pursuing higher and technical education. They will also be supported for acquiring special aids and appliances for studies.

Eligibility

  1. Financial assistance will be available to disabled Indian students.
  2. They will need disabilities certificate as per definition under PWD Act 1995 to avail financial assistance under the scheme.
  3. Financial assistance will be given for the study of recognized post matric/post secondary courses in recognized institutions.
  4. Scholarship will be awarded for one course to one student.
  5. Financial assistance will also be given for purchase of a computer with editing software for blind & deaf graduate and postgraduate students pursuing professional courses and purchase of support access software for cerebral palsied students.
  6. Students with disabilities, who have passed matriculation/secondary or any higher examination from a recognised board/University, will be eligible for the assistance.
  7. Continuation/ renewal of the award for next year will depend on successfully completing the course in the preceding year with minimum 50 percent marks.
  8. Assistance will not be available for courses having duration of less than one year.
  9. 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.
  10. For availing financial assistance under this scheme monthly family income of the beneficiary should not be more than Rs. 15,000/- from all sources. Family income will include income of the parent and in their absence income of the guardian.

Awards

500 awards will be available for pursuing higher and technical education and will be given through institutions in which students will undertake the study. Awards will be given to different categories of disabled students in following number:

Awards Details for students with disabilities
Categories Males Females
orthopaedic disability 58 awards 58 awards
visual disability 58 awards 58 awards
hearing disability 58 awards 58 awards
low vision, cerebral palsy and disabilities other than above 76 awards 76 awards

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

View Scholarship Rate Table

The awardees will also be re-imbursed the course fee subject to a ceiling of Rs. Ten thousand per year.

Besides students living in the hostel/residential facility provided by the institutions, those students will also be considered hostellers 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.

Application for Award

Applications for the awards will be made to Secretary of the National Fund in the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment. Application for award of scholarship will be made through head of the institution in which applicant is enrolled for study. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment will issue advertisements every year in the month of May in newspapers and through Doordarshan seeking applications for awards.

Application form for New Cases

Application for Renewal/Continuation of Award

Application for renewal/continuation of award will be sent to the National Fund after successful completion of the academic year through the institution in which the scholarship holder is enrolled.

Application Form for Renewal/Continuation

List of enclosures(attested copies only):
  1. academic records (attested copy of certificates and Mark sheets-metric & above),
  2. Family Income Certificate/ Proof of annual income, e.g. Salary Slip, last Income tax Assessment order,
  3. attested copy of Disability Certificate
  4. Course fee receipt (if any) with break up of each item duly paid during the academic session
  5. 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.
Applications for the scholarship may be sent to Shri R. Radhakrishnan, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi-110001. A Student should submit only one application alongwith all its relevant documents alongwith recommendations of the Institute concerned.

Application for award of scholarship will be countersigned and recommended by the head of the institution in which applicant is enrolled for study.

Details and forms can also be obtained from the Ministry's Website www.socialjustice.nic.in or from Under

Secretary(DD.I),
Room No. 622 "A" wing,
Shastri Bhavan,
New Delhi-1.
Tel: 23386314