Department Name: Social Justice and Special Assistance

Overview:

1) Providing financial assistance for education.
2) Providing financial assistance for education.
3) To reduce the drop in education leakage.
4) Creating a passion for higher education.
5) Providing students the opportunity to go to the mainstream of education through education.
6) Scholarship scheme to avoid transparency, co-ordination and delay.
7) Benefits of Tuition Fees, Exam Fees and Maintenance Allowance are paid to only SC category students.
8) Candidate family income should be less than or equal to 2,50,000/-

Eligibility:

1) The parents/Guardian annual income shall be less than or equal to Rs. 2,50,000.
2) Student category shall belong to Scheduled caste or Navbouddha
3) Student shall belong to resident of Maharashtra
4) Student should be passes SSC/equivalent Matric.
5) Failure: if student fail first time then should avail Exam fees & maintenance allowance. If fails second time in same class then he/she will not get any allowance and after two drops he will pass and go to next class then he will be eligible.
6) In case of student studying out of Maharashtra then same rules are applicable as per GOI.
7) Only 2 professional Courses are allowed.

Documents Required

• Income Certificate(Provided by Tahesildar)
  • Cast Certificate.
  • Mark sheet for last appeared examination
  • Mark sheet for SSC or HSC
  • Father death Certificate(if required)
  • Gap & Self Declaration(if required)
  • Hostel Certificate (if required)
  • Husband Income Certificate(if girl is married)

Benefits

Under this Scheme the eligible SC/ Neo Buddhist students are paid benefits as bellow.

1) Maintenance Allowance is provided as per Group I, Group II, Group III, Group IV per month from date of admission to date of exam (max 10 months)

Day Scholar: (Amount in Rupees per month)
• Group I 550
• Group II 530
• Group III 300
• Group IV 230

Hosteller (Amount in Rupees per month)
• Group I 1200
• Group II 820
• Group III 570
• Group IV 380

2) Additional allowances for SC students with disabilities(Type wise disabilities) as mentioned in GR are as follows,

Type of Disability Allowances(Rs per month) Remark
Blindness/Low vision Grp I & II – 150/-
Grp III – 125/-
Grp IV – 100/- As per GR (A) of additional allowances

Leprosy cured All Groups:
i) Transportation Allowance upto 100/-(Students residing outside hostel campus)
ii) Escort Allowance 100/-
iii) Special Pay allowance for hostel employee as care taker. 100/- As per GR (B, C, D) of additional allowances

Hearing Impaired All Groups:
i) Transportation Allowance upto 100/-(Students residing outside hostel campus)

As per GR (B) of additional allowances
Locomotor Disability All Groups:

i) Transportation Allowance upto 100/-(Students residing outside hostel campus)
As per GR (B) of additional allowances
Mental Retardation/ Mental Illness All Groups:
i) Transportation Allowance upto 100/-(Students residing outside hostel campus)
ii) Escort Allowance 100/-
iii) Special Pay allowance for hostel employee as care taker. 100/-
iv) Extra Coaching allowance 150/- As per GR (B, C, D, E) of additional allowances

Orthopaedic Disability All Groups:
i) Transportation Allowance upto 100/-(Students residing outside hostel campus)
ii) Escort Allowance 100/-
iii) Special Pay allowance for hostel employee as care taker. 100/- As per GR (B, C, D) of additional allowances

3) In addition to the maintenance allowance all mandatory fees/ compulsory payable fees i.e. (Tuition Fees, Exam Fees & other Fees) by the student to the institutes are covered under this scheme.