Sanctioning of Daisy Players to Visually Challenged(SDPVC)

Overview

About SDPVC

Directories file this one under scholarships. It is not one. Nothing is credited to an account, nothing is reimbursed, and no amount reaches a student or a family at any point: the A.P. Differently Abled and Senior Citizens Assistance Corporation sanctions a single piece of equipment, a DAISY talking book player, and a district office puts it into the applicant's hands. The corporation's application form is open today and takes a submission, which is more than can be said for some of its neighbours on the same site.

A DAISY player is a small dedicated audio machine, and the acronym explains it better than the box does. DAISY stands for Digital Accessible Information System, the talking book standard the National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities in Dehradun moved to after years of recording on cassettes, then CDs, then plain MP3 (NIEPVD Talking Book Unit). What the standard buys a student is navigation. An ordinary audio file only runs forward; a DAISY book carries the structure of the text inside it, so a listener can move word to word, line to line, and by paragraph, page or chapter. That is the whole distance between listening to a textbook once and revising from it before an exam.

The dedicated unit is one of four playback options NIEPVD names for those recordings, the other three being a mobile phone, a computer and a standard MP3 player. This sanction supplies the flash memory based player and nothing more specific: beyond the words Daisy Players, neither the scheme page nor the corporation's cost statement names a make, a model or a technical specification, so an applicant cannot look up in advance what a district will hand over.

Nor is this an education programme with a device attached to it. It sits on the corporation's aids and appliances shelf, listed after artificial limbs and before folding walking sticks (List of APDASCAC Schemes), and the file that decides a sanction is a disability file scrutinised in a welfare office rather than a student application weighed against marks.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

There is no calendar. The corporation notifies rounds for some of its sanctions and not for others, and daisy players fall in the second group: its Notifications board is currently occupied by motorized three wheeler notices, a date extension among them, and by braille press items, with nothing posted for this scheme at any point on it.

An open form and an empty notice board are not in conflict. The archived guidelines describe applications being accumulated at district level over the course of a year and turned into a requirement when head office asks for one, which is a rolling arrangement rather than a windowed one (guidelines on the corporation's earlier site). In practice that means no announcement to watch for and no deadline to miss, and equally no date by which anyone has undertaken to answer you.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Begin with what the scheme page does not ask, because that is where this sanction parts company with everything around it. It sets no age band. It names no class, no course and no institution. It asks for no bonafide certificate. On the published wording, someone who left school years ago files the same form as a Class 9 student.

Three tests are all that survive on the scheme page: disability of 40% and above with eligibility as specified in the RPwD Act, 2016; family annual income capped at Rs 3.00 lakhs; and one sanction in three years.

Hold that against the corporation's own comparators. Its laptop sanction will not look at anyone without an institution behind them, wanting a bonafide certificate and enrolment in a degree course or an ITI or polytechnic diploma. Its touch phone sanction demands an Intermediate pass, an age of 18 years and above, and a sign language certificate. The daisy player requires none of it, and whether that is a deliberate widening or an omission nobody has gone back to fix, the corporation does not say.

Residence is written down nowhere as a condition. The form settles it in practice, since its district dropdown lists Andhra Pradesh districts and offers no way to enter anything outside the state (application form).

The narrower rules have not vanished so much as gone offline. The corporation's previous website carried the full guidelines for this sanction, written against the Action Plan 2017-18, and the Internet Archive still holds the page. There the player went to visually challenged students in the age group of 16 to 23 years, glossed in the same breath as 9th Class to Degree, each of whom had to submit a bonafide certificate from the recognized reputed School/College in which they were studying (guidelines on the corporation's earlier site). That class range is what the national scheme record still repeats to this day.

Neither the age band nor the bonafide certificate appears on the page the corporation publishes now, and the two texts differ too sharply to be read as one rule. The archived version is history rather than the standard you have to meet; anyone whose age falls outside it should put the question to a district office instead of settling it from a 2018 capture.

The income test moved too, from a monthly ladder to a single annual line. The archived sentence is punctuated loosely, but it numbers its own rungs (i), (ii) and (iii), and they run in that order:

Those guidelines credit the ladder to the Government of India under the Adip Scheme. The live page keeps none of it, offering one annual ceiling of Rs 3.00 lakhs and saying nothing at all about a part payment at any income level (Sanction of Daisy Players). Whether a family above the old half-cost mark is still asked to contribute has no answer in print.

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

No exclusion list is published for this sanction, and the two bars that do exist sit where a reader would not think to look.

The first runs in software. Type an Aadhaar number into the form and the page checks it against past applications for Daisy Players specifically, scheme name included in the request; if the check answers, an alert appears and the Submit control is switched off (application form). Worth noting is what that check is not. It reads Aadhaar, not a SADAREM identifier, so unlike the corporation's three wheeler form this one validates nothing against the state's disability assessment database while you are filling it in.

The second bar is retrospective and belongs under Terms below, where a false statement unwinds a sanction after the event instead of blocking it beforehand.

Caste is collected and excludes nobody. The caste certificate upload only appears once SC, ST or BC is chosen and disappears again for General, making it a branch in the paperwork rather than a gate on the applicant.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

Nothing renews here; a clock restarts. Three years after a sanction the same person may file afresh, which the scheme page states as a rule without attaching any procedure to it, and there is no shorter route back if a player is lost or stops working inside the interval.

That clock is itself a recent thing. The archived guidelines closed on a flat sentence: this item will be issued to the individual once in life time (guidelines on the corporation's earlier site). The laptop and touch phone pages still carry that once in a life time formula word for word. The daisy player page alone has dropped it, and whoever made the change published no note explaining what replaced it or when.

The three-year figure has a plausible ancestor. The central ADIP scheme, the same scheme the old guidelines borrowed their income ladder from, refuses anyone who has received assistance during the last 3 years for the same purpose from any source. The corporation never says it took the interval from there, so treat that as a likely origin rather than a stated one.

What you get

Award & benefits

One player, collected in the district. What the state books against it is Rs 7,000, on a page headed Statement Showing the Cost of Aid that prices every item the corporation moves, from Rs 200 folding sticks up to a Rs 75,000 motorized vehicle (Statement Showing the Cost of Aid).

Two cautions travel with that figure. It is a procurement rate rather than an entitlement: nobody is handed Rs 7,000, and no reimbursement exists for a player bought privately. And its currency is genuinely unknown. The page carries no date, no revision note, and no link from any menu on the corporation's site, so you arrive at it from a search result rather than from navigation. The Internet Archive's oldest copy of the same statement, taken in 2018 from the corporation's previous website, prints Rs 7,000 against Daisy Players as well (archived statement of aid costs). The number is the corporation's own and it is at least that old; whether anybody has revisited it since is not something the corporation has put in writing.

Absences make up most of the package. No memory card, no books loaded on it, no training in how to use it, no warranty, and no repair or replacement route appears on the scheme page, on the cost statement, or in the archived guidelines. The corporation also publishes no count of players sanctioned, in a district or across the state, in any year, so there is no published measure of how much of this actually moves.

• Eligible beneficiaries of this scheme will be provided with a DAISY Player to facilitate accessible learning and information access.

What to prepare

Documents required

Five uploads, one of them conditional. The scheme page names the disability certificate, the Aadhaar card, a passport size photo and the latest income certificate or BPL ration card, and adds a caste certificate for SC, ST and BC applicants only (Sanction of Daisy Players).

The format rule is where applications tend to die. Every file has to be an image, JPG or PNG or JPEG, and nothing over 2MB is accepted. A certificate issued as a PDF, which is how most offices now hand them out, will not upload at all until it has been converted, and a phone photograph of an A4 sheet is usually over the cap before it has been compressed. Sort both out before opening the form rather than in the middle of it.

Two papers the archived guidelines demanded are simply absent from that list. Every student then had to produce a bonafide certificate from the school or college and a Saderam certificate, spelled that way in the document, alongside the parents' income certificate, Aadhaar and a cell number (guidelines on the corporation's earlier site). Neither is asked for today. If your disability certificate came out of a SADAREM assessment, upload the certificate itself and keep the assessment printout for the district visit.

Step by step

How to apply

The route is one web page and it is working right now. The daisy player form loads its fields, pre-fills its Scheme box with Daisy Players and locks it read-only so a file cannot be misdirected to another aid, and presents an active Submit control. Say that plainly, because the corporation's motorized three wheeler form, reached from the same menu, answers with a single line saying the application form is closed. Sharing a website tells you nothing about whether a particular scheme is taking applications.

Nothing comes before the form: no account, no registration step, no fee. It collects personal and contact particulars, an Aadhaar number, a district chosen from the dropdown and an address, then the five uploads. Only the Aadhaar field talks to a server before you submit, running the duplicate check described above, and a reCAPTCHA sits between the last upload box and the Submit control.

Once it is in, the file leaves the website for a district office. Two designations recur through this scheme's own paperwork, Assistant Director and District Manager, and the Vizianagaram district administration records that they are one person: in the districts the Joint Collector is Ex-Officio Executive Director of the corporation and the Assistant Director, Welfare of Differently Abled and Sr. Citizens, is its Ex-Officio District Manager. So the officer to ask about your file is the same officer who signs off the district's requirement for players.

Following the Application After You Submit

The corporation's Know Your Application Status lookup asks for an Application Id and a scheme name, with Daisy Players among the entries in its dropdown. What no page on the site explains is where that Id comes from or at what moment it is issued. Since the form gives you one screen after submission and promises no email, the useful precaution is an unglamorous one: photograph or copy down whatever reference appears before navigating away, because nothing published offers a way to recover it later.

How winners are picked

Selection process

No marks are counted, no list is published, and no committee is named, which separates this sanction from the corporation's three wheeler, where a District Selection Committee with named seats decides who gets a vehicle. Here the archived guidelines put the entire filter inside the district office. The Assistant Director or District Manager keeps the year's applications, maintains a record of beneficiaries so as to avoid double claims and false claims, and forwards only the eligible ones to head office together with the district's requirement of daisy players (guidelines on the corporation's earlier site).

That last phrase is the one to notice. What travels upward is a district's aggregate requirement, which means an individual outcome depends on how many players the district asks for and how many head office can supply, rather than on any position in a queue you can be told. Distribution then comes back down the same channel, the guidelines directing that players be distributed through the Assistant Directors and District Managers, which is why a sanctioned student collects the device at an office instead of receiving it by post.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

One condition is written down, and it is the honesty clause. If any information is found incorrect at a later date, the student is liable for legal action by the corporation and has to return the instrument or the cost of the instrument (guidelines on the corporation's earlier site). Since the same guidelines make the district office maintain a beneficiary register, the check that catches a false claim is likely to be a local one rather than anything automated.

Everything a recipient would want settled afterwards is unwritten. Whether the player may be sold, lent or passed to a sibling; who pays when it stops working; what happens if it is lost inside the three-year interval. None of it appears on the scheme page, on the cost statement or in the archived guidelines, and the only route to a second unit anybody has published is to wait the interval out and apply again from scratch.

Get help

Contact

Head office sits in Vijayawada, at the Managing Director's premises in Krishna Nagar. The site-wide footer carries the postal address, an email written as mdapvcc[at]gmail[dot]com, and a single telephone number, 7337089811, which the corporation itself labels a Website Technical Helpline (APDASCAC). Read that label literally: it is a helpdesk for a portal that misbehaves, not a line into your application.

The number you actually want is locked in a scan. The corporation's District Offices and Units Contact Numbers sheet is a photographed page with no searchable text behind it, and it gives a name, a mobile number and a district email address for each Assistant Director. Most of those officers cover two districts on one number, one covers three, and Nellore alone has an officer to itself, so when a mobile goes unanswered the entry against the paired district is the same desk.

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Frequently asked questions

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