DESCRIPTION:
National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation invites applications for the Trust Fund Scholarship 2017-18 from differently-abled students to enable them to pursue professional or technical courses from recognized institutes and get employed/self-employed.
In total, 2500 scholarships will be given to those applicants who have taken admission either for graduation or post graduation (technical course) in any recognized college.
CONTACT DETAILS:
National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation Unit No. 11 & 12, Ground Floor, DLF Prime Tower, Okhla Phase – 1, Near Tehkhand Village, New Delhi – 110020 Ph: 011-45803730 Email: nhfdc97@gmail.com Website: www.nhfdc.nic.in
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
To be eligible for the scholarship, a student must fulfill the following eligibility conditions -Students should be pursuing degree or post graduate level technical and professional courses from a recognized institution.
Students who get admission to a college in a technical/professional course on the basis of a competitive examination will be eligible for the scholarship without any consideration of the percentage of marks at higher secondary/graduation level.
Students who get admission in technical/professional courses without facing any competitive examination will also be eligible for the scholarship. However, such students should have not less than 50% marks at higher secondary/graduation level.
Selection of these students will be done strictly on merit basis.In case of female students should have not less than 45% marks at higher secondary/graduation level.
A scholarship holder under this Scheme will not avail any other scholarship/stipend for pursuing the course.The annual family income of the beneficiary should not exceed INR 3 lac from all sources. Preference shall be given to economically weaker students.
Note: A student, who is awarded a scholarship for one course will be eligible for another course too after its completion. However, the awardees will not be eligible for a similar or equivalent course. The students should also not avail any other scholarship/stipend for pursuing the course.
How to Apply:
Step 1: Click here to register.
Step 2: Read all instructions carefully and proceed to apply for the scholarship by clicking here.
Step 3: Fresh applicants need to click on ‘New Scholarship Application’ to sign up and existing users need to click on ‘Renewal Scholarship Application’
Step 4: New users need to fill in the required details and register while existing users can directly login with their email-id and password.
Step 5: Fill in all necessary details in the application and upload required documents.
Step 6: Finally submit the duly filled application.