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15.5 DURATION AND RENEWAL OF AWARDS:

The duration of the award of the scholarship shall be ordinarily for four/ five/ two years or as
per the approved tenure of the course in which the candidate has got admission.

a. The award once made will be tenable from the stage at which it is given to the
completion of course subject to good conduct and regularity in attendance.
b. It will be renewed from year to year provided that within a course which is continuous
for a number of years, the scholar secures promotion to the next higher class
irrespective of the fact whether such examinations are conducted by a University or the
Institution.
c. If a scholar is unable to appear in the annual examination owing to illness and or on
account of any other unforeseeable event, the award may be renewed for the next

academic year on submission of medical certificate and/or other required sufficient
proof to the satisfaction of the Head of the Institution and his/her certifying that the
scholar would have passed had he appeared in the examination.
d. If according to the Regulations of a University /Institution, a student is promoted to the
next higher class even though he/ she may not have actually passed in lower class and is
required to take examination. of the junior class again after sometime, he/ she will be
entitled to scholarship for the class to which he/ she is promoted if the student is
otherwise eligible for scholarship.

15.6 OTHER CONDITIONS:

(i) The scholarship is dependent on the satisfactory progress and conduct of the scholar. If
it is reported by the Head of the Institution at any time that a scholar has by reasons of
his/her own act of default failed to make satisfactory progress or has been guilty of
misconduct such as resorting to or participating in strikes, irregularity in attendance
without the permission of the authorities concerned etc., the authority sanctioning the
scholarship may either cancel the scholarships or stop or withhold further payment for

such period as it may think fit.
(ii) If a student is found to have obtained a scholarship by false statements, his/her
scholarship will be cancelled forthwith and the amount of the scholarship paid will be
recovered, at the discretion of the Department of Empowerment of Persons with
Disabilities, Government of India. The student· concerned will be blacklisted and
debarred for scholarship in any scheme forever.
(iii) A scholarship awarded may be cancelled if the scholar changes the subject of the ·
course of study for which the scholarship was originally awarded unless such change, in

course of study has been approved by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with
Disabilities.
(iv) A scholar is liable to refund the scholarship amount at the discretion of the Department
of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Government of India, if during the course
of the year, the studies for which the scholarship has been awarded, is discontinued by
him/her.
(v) Maintenance allowance is payable from 1st April or from the month of admission,
whichever is later, to the month in which the examinations are completed, at the end of

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