Post-matric Scholarship for Students with Disabilities

Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Government of India

The Post-Matric Scholarship for Students with Disabilities (SwDs) is provided by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disability (DEPD) under Government of India in order to financially support disabled students studying in class 11 to Post-graduate degree or Diploma courses recognized by AICTE or UGC.

Eligibility

The Scholarship is open for all post-matriculation and post-secondary courses in government or government recognized institutions:

The Scholarship Scheme is open to Indian students only.

Students with more than 40 percent disability are eligible to apply.

The overall family annual income should not exceed INR 2, 50,000 (Two lakh fifty thousand).

The applicant must be studying in class 11 upto post-graduate or diploma.

More than two persons with disability from the same family of the same parents are not encouraged to apply.

Scholars benefiting under any other Scheme are not eligible to apply.

Employed students with family income less than that of the Scholarship amount can apply for the Scheme.

Students completed one stream and studying in the same stream (E.g. BA after B.Com.) are not eligible to apply.

Note: 50 percent of the total Scholarships are reserved for girl students. 

Maintenance allowance

Group	Hosteller	Day scholar
Group I All Bachelor’s/Post-graduate degree courses in Medicine, Engineering/ Technology, Planning/ Architecture, Fashion Technology, Management, Business/ Finance Administration, Computer Science/ Applications, Agriculture, Veterinary and Allied Sciences. All post-graduate degree/ diploma courses recognized by UGC / AICTE in any discipline	1600	750
Group II Professional courses leading to Degree/ Diploma, Certificate in areas like Pharmacy (B. Pharma), LLB, BFS, -other para-medical branches like Rehabilitation, Diagnostics etc., Mass Communication, Hotel Management & Catering, Travel/Tourism/Hospitality, Interior Decoration, Nutrition & Dietetics, Commercial Art, Financial Services (e.g. Banking, Insurance, Taxation, etc.)	1100	700
Group III All other courses leading to a Graduate degree not covered under Group I & II e.g. BA/B.Sc/B.Com etc	950	650
Group IV All post-matriculation level ‘non-degree courses for which I entrance qualification is High School (Class XL e.g, senior I secondary certificate (Class XI and XII), both general and vocational stream, ITI courses, 3-year diploma courses in Polytechnics, etc.	900	550

Disability Allowance

Type of Disability	Amount (per annum)
Visually Impaired	Rs.4000
Hearing Impaired	Rs.2000
Physically Disabled (OH)	Rs.2000
Intellectual Disabilities	Rs. 4000
All other types of disability not covered under above	Rs.2000

Reimbursement of compulsory non-refundable fees: Enrolment/Registration, Tuition, Games, Union, Library, Magazine, Medical Examination, and such other fees up to Rs.1.50 lakh per annum.

Book allowance will be given Rs.1500 / – per annum

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Last Date:  31st October 2022