National Scholarships for Persons with Disabilities | Scholarship for Persons with Disabilities with cerebral palsy, mental retardation, multiple disabilities and profound or severe hearing impairment, for pursuing general / professional / technical / vocational courses after class VIII

Operated by
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment - Welfare of other backward classes, Central Govt
Purpose
Scholarship for Persons with Disabilities with cerebral palsy, mental retardation, multiple disabilities and profound or severe hearing impairment, for pursuing general / professional / technical / vocational courses after class VIII
Probable duration
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Eligibility

  • Financial assistance will be available to Indian students with at least 40% disabilities certified as per definition under Persons with Disabilities Act 1995.
  • Financial assistance will be given for pursuing post-Matric/Post-Secondary technical and professional courses including Ph.D & M.Phil from recognized institutions. However, for students with disabilities of Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation, Multiple Disabilities, and Profound or Severe Hearing Impaired, the minimum educational qualification will be class VIII pass and scholarship will be awarded to them for pursuing general, technical, vocational or professional courses.
  • Scholarship will be awarded to one student for pursuing only one course
  • Continuation/ renewal of the award for next year will depend on successfully completing the course in the preceding year with minimum 45 (forty fifty) percent marks for professional courses and 40% for other courses.
  • The Assistance under this Scheme is not intended for Post-Matric/Post Secondary Technical/Professional courses having duration of less than one year.
  • A scholarship holder under this scheme will not concurrently hold any other scholarship/stipend. If already any other scholarship/stipend awarded, the student is required to exercise his/her option for choosing the scholarship that he/she proposes to avail and inform awarding authority about the same.
  • Monthly family income of the beneficiary should not be more than Rs.15,000/- from all sources. Family income includes income of the parent/guardian

Benefit Description

To provide assistance in the form of Scholarship for Persons with Disabilities for pursuing post matric professional and technical courses of duration more than one year

Application process

Kindly refer to following link for registration
http://www.nhfdc.nic.in/scholarship_NF.html 

Other Details

Conditions if Any
Benefit will be given to students with cerebral palsy, mental retardation, multiple disabilities and profound or severe hearing impairment, for pursuing general/professional/technical/vocational courses after class VIII
More Information
Annexure Link: -
Link:
http://www.nhfdc.nic.in/scholarship_NF.html 

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