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Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellowship was started to encourage students of basic sciences, engineering and medicine to take up research careers in these areas. Fellowship, scholarship and a contingency grant is provided to the selected students. Summer programmes for the KVPY Fellows are organised in prestigious research and educational institutions in the country.
Further details visit: www.letmeknow.in/index/show/id/916
Last date: September 1.
Merit scholarship
Sahu Jain Trust, a philanthropic organisation announces the 2009-2010 need-cum-merit based Educational Scholarships in the following categories: (A) Inland Scholarship (for courses undertaken in India) and (B) Overseas Loan Scholarships (For higher studies abroad). For further details visit: www.letmeknow. in/index/show/id/915
Business incubator
The Centre for Electronics Development and Technology (CEDT) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore has launched a business incubator in partnership with the HeadStart Foundation. Prof Jamadagni, Chairman of CEDT, Jagannath Rao, advisor to CEDT and formerly Director of Motorola India’s mobile handsets business and Kallol Borah, Director, HeadStart Foundation will manage the incubator. The CEDT-HeadStart incubator invites ideas and business plans in a number of areas. For details visit: www.letmeknow.in/index/show/id/893
The incubator will admit its first batch of companies from June 1.
HSBC Scholarships
The HSBC Scholarships is open to students admitted for undergraduate or graduate studies at Oxford, Cambridge or London Universities, in the UK, for a maximum period of three years for any of the courses offered at these universities. Applications should be accompanied with the acceptance letter.
Last date: May 26.
For details visit www.banking.hsbc.co.in
Aid for Indians
American Alumni Association (AAA) provides financial assistance to needy students who want to study in the US.
The AAA provides financial assistance of Rs 50,000 each, to those students who have secured admission or have an admission offer from a US institute for post-graduate education.
Selection criteria include:
( a) Educational and co-curricular accomplishments;
( b) Relevance of educational programme;
(c) The financial need of the student and his or her family; and
(d) The stature of the US university relative to the desired programme.
Meritorious and needy students who make the final list are required to attend a personal interview. There is an application fee that needs to be paid. For more information please visit : www.americanalumni.net.
Last date: May 29.
Gupta college
Gupta college offers PUC, BCom, and BBM. It has announced merit scholarships for those who have scored above 60% and wish to take up studies at the college. Scholarship will be in the form of fee concession in tuition fee equivalent to their percentage of marks.
Call 080 26420102 for more details.
Zakath fund
Bazm-e-Niswan Charitable Trust calls for applications for financial assistance, out of their Zakath funds, for Muslim girls, who wish to pursue higher studies after SSLC. Students should secure 50% and above. Preference will be given to first class students studying science, commerce, computers, engineering, BDS and MBBS. Application forms at Rs 15 will be issued from 15th May to 10th June, from 11am to 3pm, at Bazm-e-Niswan Charitable Trust, No 37, Muniswamy Road.
Last date: June 20.
Free hostel facility
Brahmana Vidyarthi Sahaya Sangha will provide free hostel facility for poor Brahmin students. Those interested can collect the application form from the BVS Sangha office situated at No 35, NS Iyengar Street, Sheshadripuram between 5pm and 6pm. Last date: June 30.