The Supply Free Laptops to Visually Impaired Students Pursuing Higher Education scheme is under the Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Department, Government of Odisha. The scheme aims to provide free laptops to visually impaired students pursuing courses.
Supply Free Laptops to Visually Impaired Students Pursuing Higher Education - Introduction
The 'Supply Free Laptops to Visually Impaired Students Pursuing Higher Education' scheme introduced by the Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Department, Government of Odisha. The scheme is provisioned for providing laptops to the visually impaired students to pursue professional courses after XII, undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The new provision of providing laptops to the visually impaired students forms part of the existing scheme ‘Special Appliances’.
Benefits
- The Director, SSEPD shall distribute laptops to students upon proper identification in camps organized in different regions of the State in the presence of public representatives and government officers.
- JAWS software for visually impaired students will be installed on the laptops.
Eligibility
- The applicant must be a resident of Odisha state.
- The applicant must have a disability of 40% and above.
- The applicant must be pursuing 1st year and above of professional courses after +2, undergraduate or postgraduate courses including M.Phil, PhD, Law, Management, Medicine, and other technical courses.
Exclusions
- The applicant must not have received a free laptop before.
Application Process
- The interested applicant should visit the concerned Collector's office during office hours and request a hard copy of the prescribed application form from the staff exclusively entrusted to issue and collect filled-in applications.
- In the application form, fill in all mandatory fields and attach copies of all required documents (self-attestation, if required).
- Submit the duly filled and signed application form along with the documents to the concerned collector officer.
- Request a receipt or acknowledgment from the concerned collector officer after submission. Ensure that the receipt contains essential details such as the date and time of submission and a unique identification number (if applicable).