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educationally backward minorities, Eligibility Criteria for grant :
Society/Trust should be registered under the Societies Registration Act/Indian Trust Act for the last three years, The NGO rnust be having properly constituted Managing Committee with its powers clearly defined in its by-laws, Society/Trust must be having proper audit reports with Balance Sheet, ReceiptPaynient & Income-Expenditure statements reflecting educational activities carried out for the last three years, Society/Trust should be in a position to receive involvement of knowledge-able persons for furtherance of their programmes on voluntary basis, Society/Trust should not be run for the profit of any individual or a body of individuals/family and it should not be controlled by any individual or a body of individuals /family. The members from one family should not be more than 30% in the Managing Committee. The NGO will have to attach an affidavit on Rs. 20/stamp paper that the members belonging to one family are less than 30%. The institutions for whose construction/expansion the assistance is required should be in existence and recognized/affiliated to the concerned State/Central Board Council/University, Society Trust should not be functioning for furtherance of the interest of any political party, Society/Trust should not in any manner incite communal disharmony, The majority (ie, more than 50%) of the beneficiary students, in the Institution for whose construction expansion/strengthen assistance is sought, should be belonging to educationally backward minorities/target group. For seeking assistance for construction of hostel building, it is necessary that the Institution for which the hostel is required should be recognized at least up to 8th standard. Society/Trust must be having at least 500 sq. yard land (in urban areas) or at least half acre land (in rural areas) in its name or on lease for not less than 30 years for the proposed project, Society/Trust should be ready to invest at least 10% of the total cost of project as NGO's share on the project.
The Society/Trust will not take loan on the building constructed with MAEF assistance/on the land on which the building has been constructed with the assistance of the Foundation. However, if it becomes necessary, then prior permission of the
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