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Department so as to reach on or before the last date of receipt of applications as
specified in the advertisement.
(ii) The finally selected candidates are required to obtain admission and join only an
accredited university/ institution abroad within three years from the date of
communication of selection. On expiry of this specified period of time, the award will
automatically get cancelled and come to an end. No request for extension of time for
availing the award is permissible under the Scheme.

(iii) The selected candidate is required to execute a bond on the non-judicial stamp paper
before a notary public with two sureties who will execute surety bond separately for the
actual amount to be spent by Government of India on the candidate or Rs. 50,000/-
(fifty thousand) whichever is more. Each of the surety bonds shall specify and cover for
the estimated expenditure in Indian Rupees that would be incurred as travel expenses,
fees, maintenance and contingency allowances, stipends, scholarship and other
miscellaneous expenses, on the awardee during the entire period of study abroad and
shall become payable by the sureties jointly or/ or severally in case the awardee is
declared a defaulter by the DEPwD under the provisions of the scheme. The language of
the bond as decided by the Government of India will be acceptable to the candidate. The

selected candidates have to provide Solvency Certificate for both the sureties issued by
Revenue Department of the concerned State Government.
(iv) The selected candidate will also be required to execute a bond with this Department and
the Indian Mission abroad, as per prevailing laws of the foreign country, that the
extension of stay abroad beyond completion of the course or duration of the scholarship
under the Scheme, whichever is earlier will not be permissible. The candidate/ awardee
shall not seek any extension of stay abroad beyond the duration for which the
scholarship is awarded. The language of the bond as decided by the Government of

India will be acceptable to candidate.
(v) The candidate shall not change the course of study or research for which scholarship
has been sanctioned.
(vi) The candidate will give an undertaking that he will allow his university to share
information with concerned Indian Mission abroad and the Department of
Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities.
(vii) The selected candidate can pursue their respective studies in an accredited
institution/university in a country of their choice with which India has diplomatic
relations, but this will be subject to prior written approval of the Government of India,
whose decision will be final and not challengeable. The candidates are required to make

their own efforts in seeking admission in an accredited institution/university in
programmes/fields specified in the scheme.
(viii) In case the married candidates take a decision to take their spouse and children with
them or join them subsequently during the period of study, it is entirely for them to
assess their financial potential and availability of passport, visa etc., as no financial
assistance of any kind as well as any other support coverage is provided under the
Scheme for their spouse and children.

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