Rajiv Gandhi Postgraduate Scholarship

National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled offers Rajiv Gandhi Postgraduate Scholarship for students who are physically-disabled.

Scholarship Criterion:
The scholarship is awarded to students with the following disabilities:

1. Blindness or low vision
   
   
2. Speech or hearing impairment
   
   
3. Locomotor disability, including those arising from leprosy, cerebral palsy and allied disorders.
   
   
4. Thalassemia, Haemophilia, Learning disability or any other disability, as recognized b N.C.P.E.D.P. from time to time.

Eligibility:

1. The candidate should be an Indian National between 18 and 35 years of age.
   However, age can be relaxed at the discretion of the awarding authority.
   
   
2. The candidate should be either pursuing or should have gained admission to a full
   time course in an Indian university established by law or in a recognized equivalent institution.
   
   
3. The income of the candidate or his parents/guardians should not exceed Rupees 5,000 per month.
   
   
4. Applications could be made for any one of the following courses/subjects:
   (a) M.B.B.S., M.D., M.S. or an equivalent or higher course in Medicine or Surgery
   (b) Mechanical, Civil, Electronic or any other branch of Engineering
   (c) Computer Science,
   (d) Business Administration
   (e) Management,
   (f) Jurisprudence
   (g) Journalism
   (h) Architecture
   (i) Fine Arts, and
   (j) Any other course that may be notified by the awarding authority from time to time.
   
   
5. At the discretion of the awarding authority, a scholarship may also be awarded for a
   professional course of I.G.N.O.U. or any other recognized Open University.

Selection Criteria:

1. A scholarship will be provided for the entire duration of the approved course. If the student has already completed one year of the course, he/she shall be awarded only from the year that he/she has applied.
   
   
2. During the course, one failure may be condoned by the awarding authority on
   grounds of illness or other extraordinary circumstances.
   
   
3. Scholarship money will be released every three months on receipt of the progress
   report from the Head of the Institution.
   
   
4. The continuation of the scholarship will depend not only on academic progress, but also on the conduct of the student as reported by the Head of the Institution.

Contact:

National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled
People (NCPEDP)
25, Green Park Extension,
Yusuf Sarai,
New Delhi – 110016
http://ncpedp.org