Special Blind Pension Reserved Seats in Medical / Dental Colleges as GoI Nominee for MoD

6. Action by Record Office. The record office on receipt of application verifies the correctness of the details provided on the application with records held in their office. The applications found in order are countersigned and forwarded to KSB Sectt, New Delhi along with requisite documents.

7. Processing at KSB. The applications and associated documents are scrutinized for correctness. Observations if any are conveyed to Record Office / ZSWO for rectification. The applications found in order are processed for preparation of I-Card and dispatched by registered post to concerned war widow at her permanent address mentioned in the application.

Special Blind Pension

8. Historical Background. An ex-serviceman who is precluded from earning his livelihood on account of total or parial blindness caused which is attributabe to Military Service is being granted Special Blind Pension. This Special Pension is awarded to those blinded exservicemen whose blindness is attributable to Military Service with disability more than 20% and not aggravated by Military Service. The facility was first introduced in 1942. Since then the rates of Special Pension revised from time to time are as follows:-

Ser From To Rate/Per Month

(a) 1942

(b) 01 Jun 1950

(c) 01 Apr 1969

(d) 01 Jan 1973

(e) 03 Jul 1982

(f) 01 Oct 2001 31 May 1950

31 Mar 1969

31 Dec 1972

02 Jul 1982

30 Sep 2001

31 May 2017 Rs 5.00

Rs10.00

Rs 15.00

Rs 30.00

Rs 50.00

Rs 500.00

(g) 01 Jun 2017 Till to-date Rs 4,000.00

9. Aim. To provide Special Blind Pension to ESM with more than 20% of disability attributable to military service.

10. Grant. Kendriya Sainik Board grants Special Blind Pension of Rs. 4,000.00 per month to the blind ESM. Special Blind Pension is over and above the ESM’s entitlement of Service element and disability element of his pension.

11. Channel of Grant. The application for Special Blind Pension is initially forwarded

by ESM to concerned Record Office along with Unemployment Certificate, Sheet Roll and Medical History. After due verification of the documents, the application along with relevant documents are forwarded by the Record Office to the PCDA (P) Allahabad.

12. Processing at KSB. PCDA (P) Allahabad scrutinizes the case and forwards the same to KSB along with its recommendation and audit report for approval. Once the sanction is granted by Secretary, KSB, all the documents along with sanction letter are forwarded back to PCDA (P) Allahabad for issue of Special Blind Pension.

Reserved Seats in Medical / Dental Colleges as GoI Nominee for MoD Quota

13. Introduction. Every year, since 1967, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare allots some seats for MBBS/BDS to Kendriya Sainik Board, Ministry of Defence, under Central Pool Quota for wards of Defence personnel i.e. (Army, Navy, and Air Force).

14. Eligibility Criteria.

(a) Scheme is open to Indian Nationals only.

(b) Only wards/widows/wives of Defence Personnel from Army, Navy & Air Force from Priority-I to Priority-IX, as per DESW, MoD letter No. 6(1)/2017/D (Res. II) dated 21 May 2018 are eligible for the scheme. The details are enumerated in succeeding paragraphs.

(c) Selection of candidates for Central seats reserved for Govt of India Nominee is made on the basis of marks obtained by the student in National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) conducted by CBSE. Candidates who do not qualify the NEET, need not apply.

(d) Wards of civilians/civilians working in AFHQ/MoD, DRDO and wards of personnel from DSC, GREF, Para Military/CAPF are not eligible.

(e) This facility is admissible for only one member of the family.

(f) Candidates should have attained the age of 17 years on 31 December of the academic session in which the admission is sought for.

(g) Sons who are more than 25 years of age should not apply. Daughters if married, are not dependent and hence should not apply.

15. Instructions. The following instructions are to be complied with by the applicants:-

(a) Application by eligible candidate is to be submitted online along with supporting documents as given in Para 16, below. No application will be entertained after the last

date of submission. No offline application will be entertained. Serving Personnel

will submit application online along with scanned copies of documents duly authenticated by OIC Records.

(b) A wrong or misleading entry will lead to rejection of the application.

(c) Selected candidates will be informed directly by the Kendriya Sainik Board, Ministry of Defence, West Block-IV, Wing No. 7, RK Puram, New Delhi-110066 through email and telephonically about date of counseling.

(d) Selected candidates who want to appear/not appear in counseling should send his/her willingness/ unwillingness telephonically as well as by Fax or email at No. 01126192362, E-mail ID:- jd.cksb-mod@gov.in and by post, within specified date given by KSB Sectt. Format of Willingness/Unwillingness certificate is available online.

(e) Selected candidates who fail to appear for counseling on specified date his/her candidature will be cancelled and his/her seat will be passed to the next candidate in merit. If for unavoidable reason, the date of counseling is not as per

the convenience of the candidate, he/she has to inform in writing (e-mail) for a subsequent date. However, rescheduling counseling date is permitted only

once.

(f) Any candidates to whom MBBS/BDS seat is offered but he/she has not given willingness/unwillingness certificate by specific date mentioned by KSB Sectt, his/her candidature will be cancelled and his/her seat will be passed to the next candidate in merit. The Contact Nos. of KSB Sectt are as follows:-

(i) Reception - 011-26715250

(ii)

(iii) Jt Dir (Adm & Coord) - 011-26192360

PA to Secy - 011-26192361

(iv) E-mail ID - jd.cksb-mod@gov.in

(g) Candidates should bring all original documents alongwith a photocopy at the time of counseling.

(h) Nomination made will be subject to the candidate fulfilling the admission requirement of the Institution/University concerned.

(j) If an applicant, admitted on the basis of the information furnished by him/her and subsequently found to be false statement in any respect, he/she will be removed from the college. Fees and other dues paid by the candidate shall NOT be refunded.

(k) Candidate admitted against the reserved seats will have to execute a Bond with the Government of India, Ministry of Health or the State Government or the Administration of Union territory, as the case may be, to serve the Government concerned for the specified period after qualifying for registration as a Medical/Dental Graduate.

(l) If a selected candidate is refused admission by the Medical/Dental College concerned due to non-fulfillment of admission requirements he/she will not have any claim for his/her transfer or admission to some other Medical/Dental college.

(m) The seat offered will be final and no request for change will be entertained. Candidates who fail to send their acceptance by the prescribed date will forfeit their nomination.

(n) Applications are to be applied online only for MBBS and BDS courses on KSB Sectt Web portal www.ksb.gov.in as per online format of application form.

(p) Both the attested photocopies of the supporting documents by Director, Rajya/ Zila Sainik Board and OIC Records, in case of actual and legitimate children (including validly adopted sons/daughters prior to the death of the deceased), are to be uploaded with application form.

(q) The selection within Priority-V will be strictly in the order of Gallantry awards.

(r) The Candidates must clearly mention the Priority in his/her application as listed below.

Priority-I :Widows/Wards of Defence personnel killed in action

Priority-II :Wards of disabled in action and boarded out from service

Priority-III :Widows/Wards of Defence personnel who died while in service with death attributable to military service. Priority-IV :Wards of disabled in service and boarded out with disability attributable to military service

Priority-V : Wards of Ex-Servicemen and serving personnel who are in receipt of any of the following Gallantry Awards:(i) Param Vir Chakra (ii) Ashok Chakra (iii) Maha Vir Chakra (iv) Kirti Chakra (v) Vir Chakra (vi) Shaurya Chakra

(vi) Sena, Nau Sena, Vayu Sena Medal (vii) Mention-in-Despatches

Priority-VI : Wards of Ex-Servicemen

Priority-VII : Wives of:

(i) Defence personnel disabled in action and boarded out. (ii) Defence personnel disabled in action and boarded out with disability attributable to military service. (iii) Ex-servicemen and serving personnel who are in receipt of Gallantry Awards.

Priority-VIII : Wards of Serving Personnel.

Priority-IX : Wives of Serving Personnel.

(s) All Eligibility Certificate of ESM Category will be recommended by the ZSWOs and countersigned by the Director RSB, as per MoD policy on the subject, promulgated vide GoI MoD/DESW Note F.No.6(1)2017/D(Res.II) dated 21 May 2018. Under Priority-V, VII, VIII & IX in the case of serving personnel, the eligibility certificate will be signed by CO/OC Unit.

(t) Litigation if any, will be restricted to jurisdiction of Delhi Courts only.

(u) Instructions given above are to be used as guidelines only and are subject to change without notice as per Medical Council of India/Ministry of Health rulings, issued from time to time.

16. List for Documents to be Uploaded with the Application Form. The following documents are to be uploaded with the application form: -

(a) Self-attested photocopy of the marks-sheet of Matriculation examination.

(b) Self-attested photocopy of the marks-sheet of 10+2 or equivalent examination.

(c) Self-attested copy of Result/Merit of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).

(d) Eligibility certificate will be duly signed by ZSB/RSB and countersigned by OIC Records. For serving personnel. In priority V, VII, VIII & IX for serving personnel, eligibility certificated can be signed only by CO/OC Unit or OIC Records.

(e) Self-attested photocopies of Education Entitlement Card (Battle Casualty/ other