Scholarship programme for girls

 Wipro Consumer Care, in association with “Wipro Cares,” has announced the Santoor Scholarship programme to financially support underprivileged girls for their higher education.

The programme that will be rolled out in 2016-17, will offer 300 scholarships in Karnataka. This will be a recurring annual programme. The grant given to each of the beneficiaries could be utilized for tuition fees or other expenses related to education.

Santoor scholarships are open to girls from underprivileged and disadvantaged backgrounds who wish to pursue their diploma or degree of a minimum two-year duration. To qualify, the student must have passed her grade 10 and 12 from a government school or college.

Applications will be available with the government junior college principals. It can be downloaded from www.santoorscholarships.com. The last date for form submission is August 31. The scholarship shall be Rs 36,000 per annum if the diploma or degree college is located in a large city and Rs 24,000, otherwise.

Sixty per cent of the scholarships is earmarked for students who wish to pursue higher education in the fields of humanities, liberal arts and sciences. The remaining forty per cent can be availed by students pursuing professional courses. Priority would be given to girls from the backward districts.