Scheme Details of COACHING PROGRAMME FOR MEDICAL/ENGINEERING ENTRANCE EXAMINATION TO STUDENTS OF ECONOMICALLY BACKWARD SECTIONS AMONG THE FORWARD COMMUNITIES OF KERALA

I.           Background

Kerala State Welfare ^'Corporation for Forward Communities Limited intends to provide financial assistance to students belong to economically backward sections among the forward communities for Medical/Engineering entrance oriented coaching programme, during the financial year 2013-14 to increase opportunities among them for pursuing professsional education in the field of Medicine and Engineering. This scheme will enable them to be eligible for employment in reputed organizations in India and abroad, and also equip them to effectively take advantage of the growing opportunities at the national and international level in the context of the new economic order.

II.   Scope of the Scheme

The Financial assistance will be provided to the students belonging to economically backward sections of forward communities who undergoes Medical/Engineering Entrance coaching in the reputed coaching institutions.

IlL Implementing Agency

Kerala State Welfare Corporation for Forward Communities Limited is the nodal agency for implementing this scheme. The scheme will be notified through Print and Electronic Media.

IV.           The Scheme

The Scheme provides financial- assistance up to an amount of .151000/-(Rupees Fifteen Thousand only) as course fee to the finally selected candidates belonging to economically backward sections of forward communities for pursuing entrance oriented coaching programme in the field of Medical/Engineering courses. The applicant shall have the liberty to choose reputed coaching centres of their own choice. However Kerala State Welfare Corporation for Forward Communities Limited, will have the final say in ascertaining the reputation of any coaching centres/Institutions.

V.              Eligibility

(i). Any student belonging to forward community, (groups of people who do not come under the purview of reservation scheme operated by the Government of India or any of the State Governments in India and those groups who are not listed as other backward classes, other scheduled classes, scheduled tribes and other eligible classes) and whose annual family income is limited to 3 lakhs (Rupees Three lakhs Only) per annum are eligible to apply.

The Scheme will cover only those_, students who are studying +2 or equivalent courses or within two years from the completion of the +2/equivalent course

The student should secure at least 60% mark or equivalent grade in their secondary school leaving exam (10^th Standard or its equivalent examinations)

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(iv).      The applicants who availed the assistance once will not be considered further.

(v).        Preference in awarding assistance will be given to applicants belonging to lowest income group.

VI.        Selection Procedure

The Scheme will be advertised in the newspapers giving summarized_. information about the Scheme. The candidates shall after assessing their eligibility and suitability, as per conditions of the Scheme, apply to the Kerala State Welfare Corporation for Forward Communities Limited, in the prescribed application form which will form a part of the advertisement. The last date of receiving applications will also be mentioned in the advertisement. Thereafter, all applications received up to the last date of receiving applications, as notified in advertisement, will be scrutinized by the Kerala State Welfare Corporation for Forward Communities Limited. In case the number of candidates exceeds the number of sanctioned beneficiaries, the candidates will be selected based on the percentage of marks obtained by them in their secondary school grades.

VII.        Mode of disbursing the assistance

Financial assistance will be disbursed to the selected candidates through the applicant's bank account in any of the Nationalized/Scheduled Banks on production of fee receipts and admission details.

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Assistance will also be provided directly to the institutions/coaching centres on the written requests from the selected applicant along with admission details & letter of acceptance from the head of institutions.

VIII.     Jurisdiction of the Scheme

The jurisdiction of the Scheme is up to providing prescribed financial support to the selected candidates for availing entrance coaching classes in the specified areas.

VIII. Furnishing of False Information

If any candidate has furnished any false information/document and is established as false, he/she will be disqualified from any other future assistance/benefits from the Kerala State Welfare Corporation for Forward Communities Ltd.

IX.           Duration of Award with Financial Assistance

The prescribed financial assistance will cover the duration of the course having a maximum period of two years.

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X.     General Conditions

KSWCFC is the nodal agency for implementing the scheme.

*    KSWCFC notifies the scheme by inserting suitable advrtisement in the print and electronic media.

KSWCFC is implementing the scheme from the financial year 2013-14 onwards.

*    The student has the liberty to choose any reputed institution for the training in their respective fields.

KSWCFC will have the final say in ascertaining the reputation of any coaching institutions

Financial assistance will be disbursed to the selected candidates through the applicant's bank account • in any of the Nationalized/Scheduled Banks or Assistance will also be provided directly to the institutions/coaching centres on the written requests from the selected applicant along with admission details & letter of acceptance from the head of institutions.

KSWCFC will evolve its own mechanism for verifying the genuineness of the certificates furnished by the candidates_, in order to eleminate the possibility of students availing of the merit scholarship on fake certificates.

*    The decision of the KSWCFC in regard to awarding the merit scholarship shall be final and no appeal would lie against any decision by KSWCFC in regard thereof.

KSWCFC will monitor and record the feedback of the scheme (ie, the number of candidates who got selection in this courses).

XI. Litigations

Any litigation on matters arising out of this scheme will be subject to sole jurisdiction of the courts situated in Thiruvananthapuram,

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