Special Education And Vocational Training Through Government Institutions(SEVTGI)

Overview

About SEVTGI

Most Maharashtra disability schemes end with money reaching a bank account. This one ends with a child sitting in a classroom the state itself runs. The benefit is admission: a place in a government special school while the child is of school age, and a place in a government training centre after that. That is why the document list asks for proof of enrollment into the government institution before anything else, and why the scheme is worth nothing to a family that cannot reach one of those institutions.

Maharashtra runs this as an institutional service rather than a transfer. Special education is delivered inside government special schools for children with disability of school age, and vocational training takes over above that age, in the state's own adult training centres and workshops. Nothing here is credited to an applicant; the state carries the cost of running the institution.

The rulebook behind it is older than the scheme card suggests. The Disability Welfare Department's own compilation of schemes gives the reference for both halves as the School Code for the Special School and Workshop 1985, funds them from the state budget except in unaided institutions, and writes them up as two entries rather than one: education, aimed at students in Class 1 to Class 10, and training, aimed at adults, delivered on the basis of industrial training institutes (compilation of schemes for children with disabilities, Maharashtra). A parent reading the scheme card as a single continuous entitlement is reading two rulebook entries stitched together at age eighteen.

The office behind it has also moved since that card was written. A cabinet decision of 29 November 2022 separated the two disability desks out of Social Justice and Special Assistance, and a General Administration Department notification dated 15 December 2022 constituted the Divyang Kalyan Vibhag as a secretariat department in its own right. The education, training and rehabilitation schemes that the Director of Social Welfare at Pune used to run were transferred wholesale to the Divyang Kalyan Ayuktalaya and are implemented through it (citizen's charter, Divyang Kalyan Vibhag). That charter opens its list of departmental schemes with education and training of divyang persons through government institutions, which is this one.

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

The source publishes neither an opening date nor a closing date for this scheme, and none is announced annually; the file moves when a seat and a complete proposal meet.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

The disability bar is not a scheme invention. Section 2 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 fixes it: not less than 40% of a specified disability, where the disability has not been defined in measurable terms, certified by the certifying authority (Act, section 2). The scheme reads that percentage off the certificate and nothing else about the impairment.

What the department adds to that is a class band, an upper age and, unusually, an explicit absence. Its compilation lists four conditions on the education side: the student should be studying in Class 1 to Class 10, should have a minimum 40% disability, should be domiciled in Maharashtra, and there is no income limit. On the training side the same four conditions apply minus the class band, and the beneficiary group is put at ages 18 to 45 (compilation of schemes for children with disabilities, Maharashtra). The upper age is worth noticing, because the scheme card stops at "18 years and above" and says nothing about where the training entitlement ends.

The age split on the education side is statutory. Section 31 of the same Act gives every child with benchmark disability between the age of six to eighteen years the right to free education in a neighbourhood school or in a special school of his choice, and obliges the government to keep that access open till the child attains the age of eighteen (Act, section 31). The school-age band tracks that right; the vocational side begins where the right ends.

Which impairments count has widened. The 1995 Act listed seven; the 2016 Act lists 21, from blindness and hearing impairment through dwarfism, thalassemia and acid attack survivors (department FAQ), and the department records the beneficiary group for its education and training schemes as students with disabilities in all 21 categories under that Act (compilation of schemes for children with disabilities, Maharashtra).

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

The scheme record publishes no exclusion list, so the firm bars are the eligibility conditions read backwards: residence outside Maharashtra, a certified disability under the benchmark, and an age or class outside the band the institution admits for. Earnings are not among them, because no income ceiling is set on either half (compilation of schemes for children with disabilities, Maharashtra).

The bar most families trip over is about the institution rather than the child. This scheme buys a place in a state-run institution, and education and training through institutions run by voluntary organisations is a separate entry in the department's own scheme list (citizen's charter, Divyang Kalyan Vibhag). The department keeps the two estates in separate directories, splitting the voluntary sector further into aided and non-aided or permanently unaided institutes (institutes run by NGOs), and its compilation notes that state funding covers everything except the unaided institutions (compilation of schemes for children with disabilities, Maharashtra).

Continuation

Renewal conditions

No renewal cycle is published, because there is nothing to renew: this is continuing attendance at an institution rather than an award sanctioned for a year at a time. What changes with age is the institution, not the entitlement. Both ends are fixed, though, and neither is renewable past them: the statutory free-education right the school placement rests on runs only until the child attains eighteen (Act, section 31), and the department puts the training group at ages 18 to 45 (compilation of schemes for children with disabilities, Maharashtra).

What you get

Award & benefits

The scheme record leaves its benefit field blank, which has led aggregator pages to describe this as a scholarship with variable awards. It is not one. What the department publishes against these two entries is a package of in-kind provision: free special education or training in formats accessible to the disability category, free lodging and boarding for residential students, free study material in suitable formats, free uniforms, trained teaching and non-teaching staff, and free medical treatment and therapies according to the nature of the disability (compilation of schemes for children with disabilities, Maharashtra). For a family outside a district town, the boarding line is usually the largest thing on that list.

There is a per-student rupee figure in the same rulebook, and it is worth understanding precisely because it is not paid to you. The department pays Rs 2200 per student per month towards maintenance allowances in aided special schools and workshops for the visual impairment, hearing impairment and locomotor disability categories, and Rs 2450 for intellectual disability. Both are paid to the institution, and both are written against the aided institutions rather than the government ones, where the state meets the running cost directly (compilation of schemes for children with disabilities, Maharashtra).

Seats are the second thing the department publishes. Each institution carries an approved student capacity, and the published totals are small enough to read in a minute.

Two things follow from that table. The Wardha institute is an industrial training institute, which matches how the rulebook describes the training half, so the vocational side is not a workshop bolted onto a school but a trade-training institution in its own right. And the department's state institute page for locomotor disability carries no institution at all (state institutes, locomotor disability), which is the honest answer to a parent asking whether there is a government school near them for a child with a locomotor condition.

What to prepare

Documents required

The enrollment proof is the binding document. Everything else on the list, the domicile certificate, the age proof, the photographs and the bank details, describes an applicant who has already been accepted somewhere; the enrollment line is what makes the file a scheme file.

The disability certificate carries the percentage the scheme tests. It is issued by a certifying authority the state designates under section 57 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, and once issued it is valid across the country under section 58 (Act), which is why a family that moved into Maharashtra does not need a fresh medical assessment, only a domicile certificate. Nothing on the list asks what the household earns, and no income certificate appears on it, which is consistent with the absence of an income ceiling in the rulebook.

Step by step

How to apply

Everything about this application happens on paper, at a counter. Two channels are published for the same form: the scheme record sends you to the District Social Welfare Office for a hard copy of the prescribed format, while the department's compilation says the completed format goes in with its documents through the concerned school (compilation of schemes for children with disabilities, Maharashtra). Both end at the same desk, and since admission to a specific institution is the thing being sought, the institution is the practical place to start.

No application URL exists, so there is no status page for this scheme to refresh. What stands in for one is the department's service clock, and it is worth quoting to the office holding the file. Under the Divyang Kalyan Vibhag's citizen's charter, proposals relating to divyang special schools, workshops, attached hostels and education and training through government institutions are to be disposed of within 30 days of a complete proposal being received; the implementing officers named are the Assistant Commissioner for Mumbai City and Mumbai Suburban and the concerned District Social Welfare Officer of the Zilla Parishad; and where the service is not delivered inside that period, the charter names the Commissioner, Divyang Kalyan Ayuktalaya, Pune, as the officer to complain to, with the responsible officer held to settling a grievance within seven days of receiving it (citizen's charter, Divyang Kalyan Vibhag). The one step in the whole file that is genuinely trackable online is the disability certificate: an applicant registered on the national portal can apply for the certificate and the Unique Disability ID card, track the application status, request a renewal or replacement and download or print the certificate (Unique Disability ID, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities).

How winners are picked

Selection process

No selection rule is published beyond the eligibility test. In practice the rationing happens at the institution: each one carries an approved student strength, so a place exists or it does not, and the district office is matching an applicant to a specific institution rather than ranking a list of applicants against each other. With a state estate this small, the binding question at the counter is which institution has room in the right disability category, not how strong the applicant looks against another.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

Ask for the conditions and you will be handed a school code rather than a scheme leaflet. Both halves run off the School Code for the Special School and Workshop 1985, cited by the department as the reference for the education and the training entry alike, which is also what makes the recognition and grant status of an institution the department's business rather than the applicant's (compilation of schemes for children with disabilities, Maharashtra). Around that sit the three conditions a file is actually tested on: permanent residence in Maharashtra, a certified disability at or above the benchmark, and enrollment in a government institution. Because the cost is carried entirely by the state, there is no central portal step and no national scheme identifier attached to it.

Get help

Contact

The District Social Welfare Office of the Zilla Parishad is where the form is issued and the file is lodged, and for Mumbai City and Mumbai Suburban that role sits with the Assistant Commissioner. Above them, the charter names the Commissioner, Divyang Kalyan Ayuktalaya, 3 Church Path, Pune 411001 as the escalation authority when the service clock is missed (citizen's charter, Divyang Kalyan Vibhag).

Source

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Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

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