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Scholarships for Differently Abled Students

Dedicated financial assistance programs aim to empower students with disabilities, ensuring inclusive education. These schemes often cover assistive devices, readers' allowances, and comprehensive tuition waivers to reduce the unique financial burdens faced by differently-abled scholars. Furthermore, various non-governmental organizations collaborate with the state to provide additional resources, ensuring that these students have equal opportunities to excel academically without facing overwhelming financial obstacles.

Scholarship	Typical window	Amount	Income limit
AICTE Saksham Scholarship for Differently Abled Students	Expected: Sep–Dec	₹50,000/yr (₹30,000 tuition + ₹20,000 incidentals)	Family income below ₹8 lakh/yr

Scholarships for differently abled students, explained

The AICTE Saksham Scholarship for Differently Abled Students is the main award on this page. It supports students with a benchmark disability who are pursuing AICTE-approved diploma and degree courses, helping with tuition and related costs so that a disability is not a barrier to technical education.

Eligibility usually turns on a disability certificate, a family income limit and admission to a recognised course. The scheme opens once a year, so treat the window shown above as a prompt to check the official portal and apply in good time.

Other schemes whose own rules name students with a disability

The table above holds one scheme written specifically for students with a disability. Another 6 on this site are not — they sit under merit, or under a single state — yet each one names disability somewhere in its own published rules, which is exactly why they get missed. Every line below is quoted word for word from that scheme’s entry on this site, grouped by what the provision actually gives you. A scheme appears more than once below if its rules give more than one thing.

Schemes that lower the marks cut-off

These are merit schemes open to everyone, with a lower pass bar for disabled applicants. Read the second figure as the mark you actually have to clear, not as a separate award.

• LIC Golden Jubilee Foundation Scholarship — “at least 60% marks (50% for disabled)”
• Sitaram Jindal Foundation Scholarship — “at least 60% marks (50% for disabled)”

Schemes that name a disability category outright

Here disability is one of the categories the scheme is built to cover, so you apply through the normal process and claim that category. Each scheme's own page lists the documents it asks for.

• CM’s Jibon Anuprerana Scheme — “Divyang (differently-abled) research scholars”
• Jnanabhumi Post Matric Scholarship (Andhra Pradesh) — “SC, ST, BC, EBC, Kapu, Minority, and Differently Abled categories”

Schemes that pay more, or pay something extra

Same scheme, same application, but more money if you qualify. One states a higher figure, the other an extra allowance — read each line for what it covers.

• Chief Minister's Higher Education Scholarship (Rajasthan) — “Students with a disability of 40% or more are eligible for ₹10,000 per annum”

Schemes with seats set aside

A quota inside a larger scheme rather than a scheme of its own, so you are competing against a much smaller field than the headline programme.

• LIC Golden Jubilee Foundation Scholarship — “also offers scholarships for disabled students (30 slots)”

Schemes that give preference, but no guarantee

Disability is named among the groups the selection favours. That is a tie-breaker, not a reservation, so it is worth applying but nothing is set aside.

• Mahindra All India Talent Scholarship (MAITS) — “Preference is strongly given to girls, children from lower-income groups, differently-abled students, and children of armed forces personnel”

Schemes where the qualifying disability is a parent’s rather than the student’s are not listed here: those turn on family status, not on your own certificate.