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Any litigation on matters arising out of this scheme will be subject to sole jurisdiction of the
courts situated in National Capital Territory of Delhi.

11. CHANGE IN THE PROVISIONS OF THE SCHEME:

Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Govt. of India may, at its discretion,
make necessary changes in the provisions of this scheme, as and when felt necessary, with the
approval of Secretary, DEPwD in consultation with the Financial Adviser concerned.
12. REVIEW OF SCHEME:

Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities may, at its discretion, undertake

review of the scheme as and when required.
The guidelines of various components of the scholarship scheme are given below:

13. PRE-MATRIC SCHOLARSHIP FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITES:

13.1 OBJECTIVES:

(a) To support students with disabilities to study further in order to prepare themselves to
earn their livelihood and to find a dignified place for themselves in the society as they face
several barriers physical, financial, psychological, mental in pursuing studies and living with
dignity. At times such students are deprived of harnessing their latent skills and thereby miss
the opportunity.

(b) To support students with disabilities for their study in classes IX and X onwards so that the
incidence of drop-out, especially in the transition from the elementary to the secondary stage is
minimized,

(c) To improve participation of students with disabilities in classes IX and X and at the pre-
matric stage of education.

13.2 NUMBER OF SCHOLARSHIPS:

a) Number of Pre-matric scholarships to be sanctioned in the year 2018-19 will be 20,000 +
Renewal and 25,000 + Renewal in 2019-20.

b) The number of slots of scholarships as mentioned above will be distributed among all the
States. and Union Territories of India. The no. of slots available to any State/UT is decided on
the basis of percentage of population of PwDs of that State/UT in comparison to the total PwD
population of India. The No. of scholarships allocated to each of the State/UT is shown in

Annexure – I.
Provided that in case the numbers of scholarships so allocated to a State/UT are not fully

utilized, due to non-availability of eligible candidates, the unu tilised slots shall be allocated
amongst the other States /UTs where the number of eligible candidates is much more than the
slots allocated to that State/UT.

13.3 SCOPE:

Scholarships under this scheme shall be available for studying in classes IX & X.

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