Organisation : Assam Social Welfare
Scholarship Name : Scholarships For Differently Abled Persons
Applicable For : Person with disability having not less than 40%
Applicable State : Assam
Website : https://socialwelfare.assam.gov.in/how-to/apply-for-scholarships-for-differently-abled-persons-0
Assam Social Welfare Differently Abled Persons Scholarships
With a view to provide educational opportunities to students with disabilities, the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities has been implementing three Scholarship Schemes i.e. Pre-matric, Post-matric and Scholarship for Top Class Education for their empowerment through education.
Related : DTE Assam 2017-18 NEC Merit Fresh Scholarship : www.scholarships.net.in/18571.html
Eligibility Criteria
** He/she should be a citizen of India
** A person with disability having not less than 40% disability and having a disability issued by any competent medical authority.
** Not more than two disabled children of the same parents will be entitled to receive benefits of the scheme.
** Provided in case the second child is a twin, the scholarship under this scheme will be admissible to both the twins.
** Scholarship for studying in any class will be available for only one year. If a student has to repeat a class, he/she would not get scholarship for that class for a second (or subsequent) 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 either of the two scholarships/stipends, which is more beneficial to him/her and should inform the awarding authority through the Head of the Institution about the option made.
Documents Required
Scholarship Amount is less than 50,000/-:
** Aadhaar id or if not available Aadhaar enrollment no.
** Disability certificate issued by the competent authority designated by the
** District Medical officer/civil surgeon of a govt. Hospital.
** Parental income certificate issued by the designated authority as per scheme guidelines i.e. duly signed by revenue authority eg. Tehsildar). Form 16 is
** not acceptable.
** Copy of previous year mark sheet.
** Tuition fee receipt.
Greater than 50,000/- :
** Student photograph
** Scanned copy of parental income certificate (duly signed by revenue authority/tehsildar.(form 16 is not acceptable)
** Scanned copy of Aadhaar card/Aadhaar enrollment no.
** Scanned copy of disability certificate issued by the competent authority designated by the District Medical officer/Civil Surgeon of a Govt. Hospital.
** Scanned copy of previous year mark sheet
** Tuition fee receipt of current course year.
** Scanned copy of bank passbook/cancelled cheque leaf
** Receipt of purchase of computer and aids & assistive device to beuploaded (only in case of top-class scholarship scheme for SwDs)
Important Timeline
Closure dates for acceptance of various scholarship applications are available in the National Scholarships Portal.
How To Apply
There are two types of Registration: Fresh Application and Renewal Application
Fresh
Student Applying for the first time in the portal should compulsory register as fresh.Students have to Click on the option “Student Login”, on the home page of National Scholarships Portal.
Fill up the application as per the instructions given by the system and then click on save button. After saving, student will get a “TemporaryID”. The system will instruct the applicant to submit his/her Temporary ID and date of birth to fill subsequent details.
Once registration is complete on click of submit button, a Permanent Registration ID is generated which can be used for tracking the status of application during the current academic year and renewal during next year.
Renewal
Those Students who got scholarship last year through NSP and the same course is continuing for another year will be considered as renewal.
Since the student has already applied in the previous academic year, so students have to update only minimal details from the existing application form like Application Id and Date of Birth which they registered during the previous year.
Student can also use Forgot Application ID to retrieve their ID. Only those students would be able to Renew who had actually got the scholarships payments last year from NSP
In order to apply online, Please visit the website: www.scholarships.gov.in
Checklist
** There are two types of Registration: Fresh Application and Renewal Application:
** Scholarship Amount is less than Rs. 50,000/-, no Documents are required to be uploaded on the portal. Students have to submit their documents to their respective school/institutions
** Student whose scholarship amount is greater than 50,000/- will have to mandatorily upload the documents given below online in the portal
** Fields provided with red asterisk (*) mark are mandatory fields in the application
Miscellaneous
Type of Service :
Online : Yes
Forms To Be Filled :
You can download the form from www.scholarships.gov.in portal
Whom to Contact :
Candidates can contact the Help Desk for resolution of the technical problems
Contact No.: 0120 – 6619540