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the scholar secures admission after the 20th day of a month, the amount will be paid
from the month following the month of admission. The maintenance allowance shall be
payable for twelve months in an academic year for pre-matric and post-matric
scholarship.

(vi) In case of renewal of scholarships awarded in the previous years, maintenance
allowance will be paid from the month following the month up to which scholarship was
paid in the previous year, if the course of study is continuous.

(vii) Scholarship will not be paid for the period of internship /houseman ship in the M.B.B.S.
course or for a practical training in other courses if the student is in. receipt of some
remuneration during the internship period or some allowance/ stipend during the
practical training in other course.

14.9 PROCEDURE OF APPLICATION AND SELECTION

a) The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities will announce the details
of the scheme and invite applications by issuing an advertisement in the leading
newspapers and through the websites and other media outfits. Applications will be
called for through National Scholarship Portal (www.scholarships.gov.in).

b) The applicants should submit their application through the on-line system within the
last date prescribed for receipt of applications. All requisite documents like photograph,
proof of age, disability certificate, income certificate of the parent, tuition fees receipt,

last academic qualification certificate, etc. duly filled in the prescribed format are
required to be uploaded in the on-line system, if the scholarship· amount including
tuition fee is more than Rs. 50,000/- per annum. In case the total scholarship amount is
less than Rs. 50,000/- supporting documents may be kept in safe custody of Head of
School /Institution, keeping in view the connectivity issue that exist in far flung areas.
[This is as per minutes of the meeting of Committee of Secretaries (CoS) held under the
Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary on 17th June, 2016 to discuss issues pertaining to
Harmonization of Scholarship Schemes].

c) The institutions in which the candidate is studying shall also register itself in the same
website and verify the details provided by the candidates. The nodal officer nominated
by the State shall oversee all the applications and process the same on behalf of the

State Government who shall digitally sign the final list in PFMS portal for disbursal of
scholarship amount to the beneficiaries.

d) Final selection will be done by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with
Disabilities based on the recommendations of the concerned Department of the State
Government considering, inter alia, the no. of slots available to that particular State. The
no. of slots available to any State is decided on the basis of percentage of population of
PWDs of that State in comparison to the total PWD population of India.

e) In case a candidate is a permanent resident of one State but studying in another State,
his application will be considered under the slot of his home State and his application

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