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The scheme aims to ensure qualitative admission and enable 100% hearing and visually impaired students to obtain high-quality technical education free from economic constraints. It provides housing assistance and expenses for food and accommodation, up to ₹4,000/- to PwD Students.

The scheme "Awas Sahayta Yojana for 100% Hearing and Visually Impaired Disabled Students in Special Trades of Industrial Training Institutes" was launched by the Department of Social Justice and Welfare for Persons with Disabilities, Government of Madhya Pradesh. The scheme aims to ensure qualitative admission of 100% hearing and visually impaired students equivalent to other categories, thereby enabling them to obtain high-quality technical education free from economic constraints. The scheme provides housing assistance and related allowances for food and accommodation to eligible disabled students pursuing specialized training programs in Industrial Training Institutes.

• The applicant must be a student.

• The applicant must be 100% visually or hearing-impaired.
• The applicant must be admitted to an Industrial Training Institute.
• The applicant must not have received admission into any Government Hostel.
• The applicant must not have received assistance from any Government Department.

##### Post-Selection Conditions

The applicant must present a certificate or declaration from the guardian stating that the guardian does not have an residential address at the same location or division where the Industrial Training Institute of regular study is situated.

• Housing assistance up to ₹4,000/- per student per month for food and accommodation is available, provided the student is studying outside their home residence at an Industrial Training Institute.
• Housing assistance of ₹2,000/- per month per student for food and other expenses only is available, if the student receives hostel facility provided by the Principal of the Industrial Training Institute.
• The assistance is provided for the academic duration of the training program, whether it is a one-year or two-year trade.

##### Disbursement

• Mode: Funds are transferred using Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS).- Frequency: The sanctioned amount is transferred monthly into the student’s Aadhaar-based bank account. The Departmental District Officer provides the advance funds to the Principal of the Industrial Training Institute in two installments every six months.- Limit: The assistance is payable only once in a lifetime for the duration of the training program.- Geographic Scope: The scheme operates in 07 divisional Industrial Training Institutes located in Indore, Bhopal, Ujjain, Rewa, Jabalpur, Sagar, and Gwalior.

##### Conditions

• The beneficiary disabled student must pay the rent amount to the landlord using an Account Payee Cheque.
• The student must maintain regular attendance at the Industrial Training Institute for the Principal to disburse the monthly assistance amount.
• Any rental amount exceeding the determined maximum housing assistance must be borne by the disabled students themselves from their own sources, and the department will provide no other facility.