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GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY
CHIEF SECRETARIAT (ADI-DRAVIDAR WELFARE)
[G.O. Ms. No. 4/2012-Wel.(SCW), dated 12th April 2012]
ORDER
Whereas Government of Puducherry gives importance to the
development of the scheduled caste population and for this purpose
various schemes have been formulated and implemented. No eligible
scheduled caste student should be prevented from pursuing higher
education in professional courses on grounds only of financial
constraint. Therefore, a proposal to implement a new scheme called
“Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Financial Assistance to Scheduled Caste Students
Studying in the Professional Colleges” covering scheduled caste students
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of the Union territory of Puducherry who are sponsored through CENTAC
from the academic year 2012-13 and also those who have been admitted
in professional courses on their own merit other than through CENTAC
in Central/State/Union Territory Government run institutions/colleges has
been under the active consideration of the Government for quite some
time.
2. Now, therefore, the Lieutenant-Governor, Puducherry is pleased
to make the rules appended to this Government order for the purpose of
implementing the above-mentioned scheme in the Union Territory.
3. This issues with the concurrence of Finance Department,
Puducherry vide its U.O.No.12655/FD/F5/A2, dated 13-3-2012.
(By order of the Lieutenant-Governor)
G. THEVA NEETHI DHAS,
Secretary to Government (Welfare).
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RULES FOR THE GRANT OF DR. AMBEDKAR FINANCIAL
ASSISTANCE TO SCHEDULED CASTE STUDENTS STUDYING
IN PROFESSIONAL COLLEGES TO PURSUE THEIR STUDIES
1. Short title and commencement.— (1) These rules may be called
the Dr. Ambedkar Scheme for Grant of Financial Assistance to Scheduled
Caste Students Studying in Professional Colleges, Rules, 2012.
(2) This shall come into force with effect from the academic
year 2012-13.
2. Objective of the scheme.— The object of the scheme is to grant
financial assistance to scheduled caste students who have been
sponsored by the CENTAC for admission and undergoing professional
courses in Government/Government recognised private colleges and also
those scheduled caste students who have been admitted in professional
courses run by institutions/colleges of Central/State/Union Territory
Government on their own merit with a view to mitigate their financial
hardship in pursuing their higher studies.
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3. Definitions.— In these rules, unless the context otherwise
requires,—
(i) “CENTAC” means Centralised Admission Committee,
constituted by Government of Puducherry.
(ii) “Department” means the Department for Adi-Dravidar
Welfare, Puducherry.
(iii) “Secretary” means Secretary to Government of Puducherry
in-charge of the subject of Adi-Dravidar Welfare.
(iv) “Director” means the Director of Adi-Dravidar Welfare,
Puducherry.
(v) “Government” means the Administrator of the Union
territory of Puducherry appointed by the President under
Article 239 of the Constitution.
(vi) “Scheduled Castes” means the castes specified in the
Constitution (Puducherry) Scheduled Castes Order, 1964 as
amended from time to time.
(vii) “Fees” means tuition fee, examination fee, term fee,
lab. fees, payable to the institutions or whatever fixed by the
“Fee Committee” and such other fee as decided by Government
from time to time except donation/capitation fees and the fees of
like nature.
(viii) “Professional Course” means a regular academic study
leading to the award of undergraduate degree in Medicine/
Engineering/Dental/Veterinary/B.Pham./B.P.T./B.Sc. (Nursing)/
B.Sc.(M.L.T. )/Agriculture/ Teacher Education/Law or Postgraduate
degree in Business Administration/Computer Application or any
other course notified by Government from time to time.
4. Conditions of eligibility— (i) Should be a student belonging
to scheduled caste as defined in clause 3 (vi) of these rules.
(ii) The scheduled caste students who have passed in Higher
Secondary Examination/equivalent and studying in professional courses
in Government/Government recognised private colleges duly sponsored
by CENTAC or got admitted directly in Central/State/Union Territory
Government run institutions/colleges on their own merits are eligible for
the financial assistance.
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(iii) The students getting financial assistance under any other
scholarship/stipend scheme of any other Department of this Administration
is not eligible to get assistance under this rule.
(iv) The scheduled caste students who are admitted to professional
courses through CENTAC or directly in Central/State/Union Territory
Government run institutions/colleges on their own merit including in II
year through lateral entry are also eligible for grant of financial assistance
under this scheme.
(v) Financial assistance will not be extended during the
internship training period to medical students.
(vi) Students undergoing a part-time course or a course in an
unrecognised institution/college or through correspondence/distance
mode or in off campus study centre of Indian University/Foreign
University are not eligible to avail the assistance under the scheme.
5. Means test.— All scheduled caste students who are pursuing
professional courses and fulfilling the conditions stipulated in the
rule 4 are eligible to get financial assistance irrespective of their parental
income. The financial assistance once awarded can be renewed every
year till the completion of the course for which the award has been
granted subject to fulfilment of all the terms and conditions prescribed
for the renewal of the award.
6. Quantum of financial assistance.— (i) Fees fixed by the Fee
Committee; or
(ii) Actual fees as defined in rule 3 (vii) payable by the student
subject to fulfilment of other rules of the scheme if not fixed by the
Government.
(iii) Mess fees at the rate of ` 1,300 per month or the actual
mess fees whichever is less and room rent at the rate of ` 700 per month
or the actual rent whichever is less for hostellers with effect from the
academic year 2012-13 or at the rate fixed by Government from time to time.
(iv) Maintenance allowance at the rate of ` 1,000 per month for
day-scholars with effect from the academic year 2012-13 or at the rate
fixed by Government from time to time.
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7. Period of financial assistance.— (i) The period of financial
assistance shall be the normal duration of the respective course and
the payment shall be made only after receipt of requisition from the
institution for payment of fees well in advance based on the total seats
reserved for schedule caste. The amount has to be adjusted against the
admitted scheduled caste students, any unutilised amount due to
discontinuance shall be utilised against newly admitted students in the
place of discontinued student through CENTAC. If the courses pursued
by the students are under semester system, the payment will be admitted
once in a semester and in all other cases once in a year on production
of demand for payment of the fees. Financial assistance once awarded
will be continued till the completion of the courses subject to promotion
of students to the next higher class.
(ii) If an awardee shows unsatisfactory progress during the
course of his studies, viz., failure in the promotional examination and
failure to take any supplementary examination subsequently or if he
changes the course of study without the prior approval of the Director
of Collegiate and Technical Education, Puducherry, the financial
assistance will not be extended. Good conduct and regularity in
attendance are also the required conditions for continuance of the
financial assistance.
(iii) If an awardee is unable to appear in the terminal University
examination owing to prolonged illness which had resulted in shortage
of the required attendance as per University rules, the financial
assistance will be renewed for next year provided the Head of the
Institution certifies that the awardee would have passed the University
examination had he taken the examination and on production of a
certificate from Registered Medical Practitioner that the awardee had
been under treatment for a period, by which the attendance fell short.
8. Procedure for sanction.— The Director, Adi- Dravidar Welfare
shall publish the scheme and the prescribed formats appended to these rules
in the department website and also release advertisement of suitable size
in one English and regional language daily, popular in each region and also
through circulars along with application form to professional colleges
including JIPMER functioning in this Union Territory. Based on the total
seats reserved for scheduled caste candidates in each college, the duly
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filled-in application shall be submitted to the Director of Adi-Dravidar
Welfare through the head of the respective professional college with due
recommendation along with required particulars for payment of fees as
defined in rule 3 (vii). The list received from the CENTAC will be taken
into account for ensuring that these students are actually selected through
CENTAC. The admission given other than through CENTAC in professional
courses offered by Government run colleges by the individual merit of the
scheduled caste candidate will also be taken into account. Necessary
sanction of the Government will be obtained by the Director, Adi-Dravidar
Welfare Department well in advance and the amount will be released to the
heads of respective institution after executing Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU). Statements of details of amount utilised and balance
available shall be intimated to the department every year.
9. Mode of disbursement.— (1) The payment shall be made by the
Director, Adi-Dravidar Welfare Department, Puducherry at the beginning
of the academic year to the institution concerned by crossed cheque.
The following procedure shall be followed in drawing and disbursing the
financial assistance.
(i) The financial assistance will be drawn by the Director,
Adi-Dravidar Welfare Department, Puducherry based on the seats
reserved for scheduled caste students and the fees structure by way
of obtaining block sanction of the Government.
(ii) The admitted beneficiaries shall submit applications in the form
appended to these rules as in Annexure-I through the institution for
account and audit purpose.
(iii) The financial assistance will be disbursed to the students
through Heads of Institutions or through any nationalised bank.
(iv) In case of any student shifting and joining another college
through counselling by CENTAC, the amount released to the first
admitted college for the students shall be adjusted for the newly
admitted student. No fresh sanction will be issued for such transfer cases.
(v) Discontinuance of the course by the student will lead to
recovery of the entire amount released under the Revenue Recovery Act.
(2) The payment of financial assistance will start from the year
of admission in the course. In case of renewal of financial assistance for
the succeeding year, the financial assistance will be paid from the year
following that for which the financial assistance was paid during the
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previous academic year, if the course of study pursued is continuous
e.g., M.B.B.S. (I Year) to M.B.B.S. (II Year), etc., on receipt of the Annual
Progress Report as in Annexure-II which contain information regarding
percentage of marks and with supporting document from that institution.
10. Payment of financial assistance during leave.— (i) The
financial assistance during the leave period will be admissible only on the
following grounds:
If the absence is due to illness supported by medical certificate
from a Registered Medical Practitioner.
(a) Full financial assistance will be granted if the absence does
not exceed two months.
(b) 50% of financial assistance only will be granted if the absence
exceeds two months but not beyond four months, and
(c) No financial assistance will be granted if the absence exceeds
four months.
(ii) For married women students, the financial assistance will be
admissible at full rate up to four and half months of absence on ground of
maternity and not beyond that.
(iii) In all the above cases, the financial assistance at the rates
indicated will be paid only if the Head of the Institution recommends the
application and certifies that the awardee is likely to make up the deficiency
in lectures and studies during the rest of the period of the course of studies.
(iv) The awardee will get the financial assistance as long as he/
she is on the rolls of an institution subject to fulfilment of sub-paragraphs
(i), (ii), (iii) of rule 10. If on account of prolonged illness or by other valid
reasons supported by the document, the awardee’s name is struck off the
rolls, he/she will be entitled to restoration of the financial assistance on
readmission and on the recommendation of the Head of the Institution.
11. Removal of doubts.— If any doubt arises as to the
interpretation of these rules, the decision of the Government thereon shall
be final.
G. THEVA NEETHI DHAS,
Secretary to Government (Welfare).
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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
Between
DEPARTMENT OF ADI-DRAVIDAR WELFARE,
GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY
And
(..........................................................................................................................)
Name of the Professional College in the Union territory of Puducherry.
The Department of Adi- Dravidar Welfare, Government of Puducherry
is implementing a scheme entitled “Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Scheme for Grant
of Financial Assistance to Scheduled Caste Students Studying in
Professional Colleges” (hereinafter referred as scheme) and for the said
purpose has framed and notified rules vide G. O. Ms. No. 4/2012/Wel. (SCW)
of the Chief Secretariat (Welfare) dated 12-4-2012 (hereinafter referred as
scheme rules).
This Memorandum of Understanding (hereinafter referred as MoU)
is being entered into between the President of India represented by the
Director, Department of Adi-Dravidar Welfare, Government of Puducherry
(hereinafter referred to as first part).........................................................
and......................................................................................(name of the
professional college in the Union territory of Puducherry) [hereinafter
referred to as second part] who jointly wish to respond to specific
objectives of the scheme. The first part hereby agrees to sanction
scholarship to the eligible scheduled caste students scholarship as per
the scheme rules and the second part agrees to collect the application from
the eligible scheduled caste students forward the application to the first
part after scrutiny and abide by the terms and conditions enumerated
hereunder in this Memorandum of Understanding.
1. The meaning of the terms used in this MoU shall be read as
defined/used in the scheme rules.
2. The first part shall release in advance at the beginning of the
academic year to the second part the “fee” proportionate to the
strength of scheduled caste students who will be admitted through
CENTAC in the Institution/College run by the second part.
3. The second part shall not insist upon the scheduled caste
students to pay the fees at the time of admission. The second part
will make necessary adjustment of the payable fee in respect of
scheduled caste students against the advance amount received from
the first part.
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4. Any advance amount lying unutilised in an academic year due
to non-admission of scheduled caste students to the extent of the
total seats allotted in the college/institution should be refunded by
second part to first part within three months from the commencement
of the academic year. Delayed remittance will entitle the first part to
recover the amount in the prevailing bank interest and a penal
interest of 12% per annum.
5. The details of the admitted scheduled caste students against
whom advance was adjusted should be furnished by the second part
to the first part within three months from the commencement of
academic year.
6. Discontinuance of course by any scheduled caste student
covered under the scheme should be informed by the second part
immediately to the first part.
7. The second part shall execute an agreement with the admitted
beneficiary scheduled caste students to effect that the entire amount
paid by the first part will be refunded by the student if he
discontinues the course and the second part shall recover the paid
amount before issue of Transfer Certificate/Provisional Certificate/
Clearance Certificate/Mark List to the discontinued scheduled caste
beneficiary student. The amount so recovered shall be carried
forward to the next academic year to utilise to an eligible scheduled
caste student subsequently admitted by the second part through
CENTAC. This agreement with the beneficiary scheduled caste
student shall be valid till the completion of the course.
8. The second part shall collect the prescribed application from
the beneficiary scheduled caste students and forward it to the first
part after due scrutiny furnishing the required certificates.
9. If any information furnished by the second part is found to
be false or incorrect at any time, the first part shall have the right
to terminate the MoU with a prior notice of not exceeding fifteen
days.
Matter not covered by the MoU :
With respect to all residuary matters not specifically covered by the
MoU, the instructions of the Secretary to Government, Department of
Adi-Dravidar Welfare shall be final and binding on both the parties.
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Amendments to MoU :
It shall be lawful for the first part to amend, vary, alter, modify,
change, revise and redraw either in part or in full any terms and conditions
of this MoU, in the interest of the students, with the mutual discussion and
consent of the second part.
Prohibition of civil suits :
The second part shall undertake that he shall not resort to any civil
suit or any legal action against the first part with respect to any issues
connected with the performance and discharge of any obligation under
this MoU without the approval of Secretary, Department of Adi-Dravidar
Welfare, Government of Puducherry.
Period of MoU :
This MoU is for a period till the activities mentioned in the MoU are
carried out.
Authorised signatory of
DIRECTOR,
(Name of the Professional College)
Adi-Dravidar Welfare Department
Puducherry.
(For and on behalf of the President of India).
Date :
Place:
Witnesses :
(1) Name and designation :
Full address
:
(2) Name and designation :
Full address :
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