Project Assist Flagship scheme of National Foundation for Communal Harmony, NFCH

Project Assist Flagship scheme of National Foundation for Communal Harmony NFCH 

Project Assist is the Flagship scheme of National Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH) an autonomous organization under Ministry of Home Affairs Govt. of India.

Objective:
The main objective of providing assistance for the physical and psychological rehabilitation of the child victims of communal, caste, ethnic or terrorist violence, with special reference to their care, education and training besides promoting communal harmony, fraternity and national integration.

Eligibility criteria: 

• A child becomes an orphan or destitute in the sense that either both the parents or the surviving parent or the main bread winner is killed or permanently incapacitated because of communal, caste, ethnic or terrorist violence. 
• The annual income of the victim’s family does not exceed rupees one lakh. 
• Child is not receiving any assistance on regular basis from any other source (one time financial assistance provided by state government /union territory administration for such victim is not considered as another source of assistance for this purpose). 

·         Assistance is admissible up to the age of 25 years. However, if a child remains for more than 3 consecutive years in a class he / she will not be eligible to get the assistance.

Scale of assistance:

Class / Course Amount

Upto Class XII - Rs 1000/- pm per child

Graduation / Post Graduation - Rs 1250/- pm per child

Professional courses viz Medical, Engineering & Management – Rs  1500/- pm per child

For further details and application proforma please click here

The Principals of schools are requested to disseminate this noble scheme of NFCH to their students, parents and neighborhood.