Government Scholarship for Students with Disabilities for Class 10th, 12th, Graduation and PG

Pre-matric, Post Matric and Top Class Scholarship for Students with Disabilities: With a view to provide educational opportunities to students with disabilities, the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities has been implementing three Scholarship Schemes i.e. Pre-matric, Post-matric and Scholarship for Top Class Education for their empowerment through education. This scholarship is very beneficial for disabled or differently-able students. Disabled students can get scholarship of more than Rs.50,000. Click here to join telegram study group →

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Important Dates

Scheme NameLast Date To Apply
Pre-matric Scholarship for Students with DisabilitiesOpen till 15-10-2022
Post-matric Scholarship for Students with DisabilitiesOpen till 31-10-2022
Scholarships for Top Class Education for students with disabilities.Open till 31-10-2022

Pre-matric, Post Matric and Top Class Scholarship for Students with Disabilities: Eligibility – Who can Apply?

  • A citizen of India.
  • A person with disability having not less than 40% disability and having a disability certificate issued by the competent medical authority.
  • Not more than two disabled children of the same parents will be entitled to receive benefits of the scheme. In case if the second child is a twin, the scholarship under these schemes will be admissible to both twins.
  • Scholarship for studying in any class will be available for only one year. If a student has to repeat a class, he/she would not get scholarship for a second (or subsequent) year.
  • A scholarship holder under these schemes will not hold any other scholarship/stipend. If awarded any other scholarship/stipend, the student can exercise his/her option for either of the two scholarships/stipends, which is more beneficial to him/her and should inform the awarding authority through the Head of the Institution about the option exercised.

Pre-matric, Post Matric and Top Class Scholarship for Disabled Students: Scholarship available for which classes

i. Pre-Matric Scheme for SwDs:- For class-IX & X in a Government school or in a school recognized by Government or by a Central/State Board of Secondary Education.

ii. Post-Matric Scheme for SwDs:- For all recognized Schools/Institutions from class XI onwards to Post-graduate Degree/Diploma courses in Full time and Distance Education courses. Students who after passing one stage of education are studying in the same stage of education in different subject e.g. B.Com. after B.A. in other subject will not be eligible. However, students pursuing L.L.B/B.Ed/B.El.Ed. after passing B.A./B.Sc./B.E. etc. are eligible for Post-matric Scholarship under this Scheme.

iii. Scholarships for Top Class Education for SwDs:- Students eligible for Postgraduation Degree/Diploma in 240 notified Institutes as given in the Scheme guidelines.

Government Scholarship for Students with Disabilities: Parental Income Eligibility

For Pre-Matric Scheme- The parental/guardian income from all sources should not
exceed Rs.2.50 lakh per annum.

For Post-Matric Scheme- The The parental/guardian income from all sources should
not exceed Rs.2.50 lakh per annum.

For Top-Class scheme- The parental/guardian income from all sources should not
exceed Rs.8.00 lakh per annum.

Documents Required to apply for Scholarship

Students with less Rs.50,000/- scholarship amount

No documents are required to be uploaded on the Portal. Students have to submit the required documents to their respective school/institutions. The list of documents to be submitted to the college/institution/school:-

  • Aadhaar ID or if not available Aadhaar enrollment receipt.
  • Disability certificate issued by the competent authority designated by the District Medical officer/civil surgeon of a govt. Hospital.
  • Parental income certificate issued by the designated authority as per scheme (duly signed by revenue authority, form 16 is not acceptable
  • Copy of previous year mark sheet.
  • Tuition fee receipt.

Students with more than Rs.50,000/- scholarship amount

Students need to upload the following documents in the portal before final submission:

  • Student photograph
  • Scanned copy of parental income certificate (duly signed by revenue authority/tehsildar.(form 16 is not acceptable)
  • Scanned copy of Aadhaar card/Aadhaar enrollment no.
  • Scanned copy of disability certificate issued by the competent authority designated by the District Medical officer/civil surgeon of a govt. Hospital.
  • Scanned copy of previous year mark sheet
  • Tuition fee receipt of current course year.
  • Scanned copy of bank passbook/cancelled cheque leaf
  • Receipt of purchase of computer and aids & assistive device to be uploaded(only in case of top-class scholarship scheme for SwDs)

How to apply online for Pre-matric, Post Matric and Top Class Scholarship for disabled Students?

Time needed: 10 minutes.

Follow steps given below to apply online:

  1. Step 1

    Click on Link given below.

  2. Step 2

    Register your account.

  3. Step 3

    Fill the application form.

  4. Step 4

    Download application form for future reference.

Pre-matric, Post Matric and Top Class Scholarship for Students with Disabilities Apply Online Link and Notification PDF

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Pre-matric Scholarship for Students with DisabilitiesClick Here
Post-matric Scholarship for Students with DisabilitiesClick Here
Scholarships for Top Class Education for students with disabilities.Click Here
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