Santoor Scholarship For Poor Girls

Santoor Scholarship For Poor Girls

Santoor Scholarship is a platform for empowering underprivileged girls by providing them with the financial support necessary for completing their graduation," S Prasanna Rai, Senior General Manager, Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting told PTI.

The Santoor Scholarship program is an initiative of Wipro Consumer Care and Wipro Cares. The program intends to financially support girls from disadvantaged backgrounds, who wish to pursue higher education after grade 12. Launched in 2016-17, the program offers support to 900 students every year, across the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana.

It is a recurring annual program and the selected students are supported for the duration of their higher education. The support covers tuition fees and incidental expenses.

Over the last two years, close to 1800 students have received support through the Santoor Scholarship Program.

Besides students inclined towards professional courses, those showing a keen interest in pursuing their higher education in the fields of humanities, liberal arts and sciences are strongly encouraged to apply. Preference is given to students from backward districts.

Eligibility to qualify for Santoor Scholarship

To qualify, the student must have passed her grade 10 and 12 from a government school/college.

How to apply

Applications for this year are available with all the government junior college principals across the three states and students can also apply online on santoorscholarships.com.

Last date to submit application

The last date to submit the application for the scholarship is September 15.

For more information visit : http://www.santoorscholarships.com/

Fair and Lovely Scholarships 2012

Fair and Lovely Scholarships 2012

To encourage the economic empowerment of the Indian women through information and resources in the areas of education,career and enterprise.

The Fair & Lovely Foundation provides scholarships worth up to Rs 1 lakh each year for deserving girl students from low-income families who display an excellent academic track record, as well as social initiative and drive. To date,the Foundation has given out more than 1000 scholarships to deserving applicants.

Eligibility :

* Candidates should have secured minimum 60% in the 10th and 12th standard
* Scholarship is open only to women with Indian citizenship - age no bar
* Candidates should want to pursue graduation, post graduation and PhD studies from Government Recognised Indian Universities
* Scholarship will be awarded solely as per the discretion of the panel of judges depending on the candidate's family income

To apply for the scholarships you can either download the application form by clicking here and courier it to the below mentioned address or you can fill it online.

The downloaded form needs to be duly filled and couriered along with below mentioned documents to:

Fair & Lovely Foundation,
P.O.Box No. 11281, Marine Lines Post Office,
Mumbai 400 020.

Application submission closes on 31st October, 2012.

For any query contact Toll-free (MTNL/BSNL) 1800-220-130

For more information visit : http://fairandlovely.in/

Government of India Scholarship For Deprived Students

Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)Government of India has launched a scholarship programme to provide financial assistance to deprived students

The scholarship has been named as 'Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship for College and University Students'.

The scholarships will be awarded on the basis of the results of senior secondary examination. 82000 fresh scholarships per annum [41000 for boys and 41000 for girls will be awarded for graduate / postgraduate studies in colleges and universities and for professional courses, such as Medical, Engineering etc.

The total number of scholarships will be divided amongst the State Boards based on the State's population in the age group of 18-25 years, after segregating share of CBSE and ICSE on the basis of number of students passing out from various Boards in the country. 50pc of the scholarships would be earmarked for girls.

Students will be given an amount of Rs.1000 per month at graduate level for the first three years of college and university and student will be given Rs.2000 per month at post-graduation level.

Students enrolled in professional courses will be given Rs.2000 per month in the fourth and fifth year. Students will be provided scholarship for 10 months in a year.

Under the eligibility conditions for the award of scholarship, the student has to be an Indian national and should have scored a minimum of 80 per cent marks in the AISSCE, 2009 conducted by the CBSE.

The Undergraduate /Professional /Degree courses should have been pursued as regular courses by the student, (not correspondence or distance mode) from recognised educational institutions in India and not availing of any other scholarship scheme.

The scheme is applicable to both 'general' and 'reserved' categories but the student should belong to non-creamy layer implying that the income ceiling not exceed 4.5 Lakhs per annum.

The reservation of various categories are: SC 15 per cent,ST- 7.5 per cent, OBC- 27 per cent and horizontally three per cent for physically handicapped.

For more information visit-: http://education.nic.in/