Samsung Scholarship 2021 Grants to 517 IIT, NIT students in India
Samsung Scholarship 2021
Samsung India on Monday introduced that it has supplied Samsung Scholarship 2021 Grants to 517 IIT, NIT college students on the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and National Institute of Technology (NIT), as a part of its ‘Samsung Star Scholar programme’.
These scholarships are supplied yearly to financially assist much less privileged college students from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) faculties who qualify to those prestigious engineering schools, the corporate mentioned in a press release.
Samsung scholarships for Navodaya Students 2021
The programme provides a scholarship of as much as Rs 2 lakh for bills associated to tuition, examination, hostel and mess for one educational 12 months and it may be renewed yearly as much as 5 years.
Started in 2016, Samsung Star Scholar programme, now in its fifth 12 months, has up to now benefitted 650 JNV college students.
“Samsung Star Scholar programme is an extension of this effort and we are very pleased that this year despite the challenges on the ground, we have been able to reach out to these gifted students,” mentioned Peter Rhee, Corporate Vice President and Deputy Managing Director, Samsung India.
Under this annual programme, the corporate provides scholarships to meritorious college students pursuing full-term B. Tech/Dual Degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) course at any IIT or NIT.
This 12 months, the programme has granted 150 scholarships to new candidates from JNVs, of which 85 will start their journey throughout 14 totally different IITs and 65 at 15 totally different NITs throughout the nation.
According to the corporate, scholarships for 367 college students at the moment pursuing full-term B.Tech/Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech) have been renewed for the following 12 months.
Recipients of renewed scholarships embody 175 second 12 months college students, 94 third 12 months college students and 97 fourth 12 months college students.
Also, Samsung India and Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti partnership started in 2013 with the ‘Samsung Smart Class’ programme which was geared toward offering high quality schooling for youngsters from rural backgrounds.
At current, the ‘Smart Class’ programme is operational at 683 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya faculties.
So far, over 430,000 college students have benefitted from it and over 8,000 academics have been educated on how you can use interactive know-how to show.
Every ‘Samsung Smart Class’ is provided with an interactive Samsung Smartboards, Samsung tablets, a printer, Wi-Fi connectivity and energy backup, the corporate mentioned.
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