State Of Scholarships In India

The Indian education system is getting a great demand because of its methodical and quality education process. The education system is basically controlled by state level and at the center level too. Scholarships in India for college and school students are offered for the past 6 decades to continue the studies for various courses. The government of India, other governments, public and private organizations and Indian universities offers massive types of scholarships for Indian and also international students who like to study in India or abroad. There are a significant number of scholarships for masters, bachelors, PhD, postdoctoral degrees, distance learning programs, short courses, training programs and fellowships. Even state government and central government offering best scholarship for SC/ST students to bring them level up. 

 

Scholarship is the boon for the students who belongs to society weaker section and who are unable to continue further education. Scholarships in India are a great incentive and encouragement for candidates, who are talented and interested to study further. There are plenty of scholarships available in India that includes merit based, student specific, college specific, need based and career specific. The ministry provides external and national scholarships to the needy. National merit scholarship scheme provides great financial assistance to any meritorious students from post-Graduation to Class XI level in universities and government colleges/schools. The total number of scholarships is divided among the state boards depends on the particular state population in age group of 25 to 18 years. Under DBT (direct Benefit Transfer), the scholarships can be disbursed into the beneficiary’s bank accounts directly. 

The main purpose of providing scholarship is to help the students financially cope with their dream of achieving higher studies. Moreover, there are many misconceptions that thesescholarships are only for the students with good academic background. Don’t pond with such rumors, the scholarship isavailable for eligible students who are in need. 

Each and every scholarship has its own rules, it is necessary to familiar with all the features and information before applying for the scholarship. The internet is the best place to search the details and needed information to apply and benefit through the scholarship. 

The prime ministers scholarship scheme has been announced to the students belongs to Jamu & Kashmir state. Sikkim University, Gangtok announced scholarships for Mphilcandidates. 2016 national scholarship announced to the students with disabilities for about 2500 students. Eligible candidates can apply through online to enjoy the benefits. 

The national scholarship portal is the great solution to get the solution for end to end process of scholarship from student application, sanction, verification and also disbursal to beneficiary offered by the Government of India. TANA foundation USA offers graduate scholarships for Telugu candidates who resides in Andra Pradesh to acquire higher level education in the USA. ONGC announced 500 scholarships for ST and SC students for the eligible candidates. NEST also announced a scholarship scheme for degree students of medical, engg, and science for the year 2016. 

AICTE scholarship to girl child scheme helps to promote the technical education like architecture, applied arts, pharmacy, engineering. For this scholarship,a girl must pass class 12 and they can apply through post or online. This scholarship is awarded for 4000 candidates worth up to 50,000 Rs per year.

Source: www.aicte-india.org

Merit cum scholarship for the minority students offers financial assistance to the meritorious and poor students belongs to the minority communities to complete their technical and professional course. This scholarship covers Rs 25000 to 30000 per year. The student must pass class 12 and graduates of Parsis, Sikhs, Jain, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian community. Apply online from June to September. 

Source: http://minorityaffairs.gov.in/ScholarshipSchemes.

Students from 11yrs to 35 yrs can apply for Gaurav foundation scholarship by email which is available from September to November. 

B4S: www.b4s.in/UID/GFMS

Center sector scheme for class 12 scholarship can be applied through the  post and online. Students are awarded with Rs:10,000 per year for about 3 years when it comes to graduation course. Rs. 20,000 per years when it comes to masters course. 

Merit scholarship

It is the most common scholarship type which is only awarded by the merit basis. Total excellent academic achievements needto get eligible to qualify the scholarship. 

Athletic scholarships

This scholarship is provided based on the skills that an athlete need to demonstrate his/her excellence in the area. The students who are excellent athletes in the school time, then their college education paid through this athletic scholarship. 

Need based scholarship

This scholarship is applicable for the students who are economically weak in the society and proposed to help the less fortunate candidates to get the academic degrees. 

Major- specific scholarship

These days, many colleges and institutions provide scholarship to students in a specific subject. To get this scholarship, the student must have an excellent track record on that specific subject.

Minority/ religious and Ethnic Scholarships

Few ethnic groups, religious organizations and minority communities also offer financial help to the members to pursue the desired education. 

Fellowships

Few scholarships are offered in the fellowship form. Usually the students use this to conduct research or study advanced degree in the field. It covers the cost of courses and research. 

Scholarships are far better than the loans. By acquiring the scholarship, it helps to considerably reduce the cost of studies which is the most cost effective tool to achieve. 

Government of Kerala has the portal to get the details of DCE scholarship and it allows to apply online too. They provide wide types of scholarship includes PMS, CSS, SMS, MSCT, HS, MGS, BPHFC, JS, MFAS, SSE, MNS and MSCT. Likewise, each state in India like, TamilNadu, Mumbai, Delhi, Karnataka, Gujarat and so on has its own scholarship portal to get the details about the scholarship from Kinder Garden level to Postgraduate level. 

 

Reference

http://www.scholarshipsinindia.com/

http://totalgovtjobs.co.in/scholarships-in-india/4348 

https://targetstudy.com/scholarships/

http://mhrd.gov.in/scholarships-education-loan-0

 

How not to exist ?

This applies to companies as well as people. The title may seem a little misleading, but the idea is to dwell on how to be mindful in case of people,  and how to thrive for companies.

Ideally people should only explore on what interests & excites them, especially in choosing vocation.
When interest is there, nothing is more important, not even money.
But unfortunately, so many people spend their lives like a ball in ping-pong game,  almost always the thrusting force is money. Most spend their life from paycheck to paycheck, and nothing much else is on their minds. That's is living dead, which is only a little better than brain-dead!

Companies, big or start ups are the same. As soon as they don't have enough cash-flows, it will be like breathless situation. If money is always there on your mind, you will lose everything else, and its no fun.
Like people should be to their interests, companies must stick to their ever changing grand vision, to gear up for next level.

This is all fine, we must have all heard this, somewhere or the other, but following the same is not easy. That's why so many people and companies get distracted, fall into time wasting trap.

Just as good intentions are not enough, as the real action requires unprecedented discipline & attitude. Many people got used to following someone successful before them, on the path to their success. That might actually work in some cases, but it can actually be  disastrous, as every one is not the same, Nor their situations etc.

This requires their original and native thinking, to make any headway! Which is very very rare.
But it need not be. The more obsessive & passionate you are about your interests & vision, the easier you can get into the mode ie...the right mind set.

The right mindset ( can we call it FULLNESS OF MIND?) sees to leverage even obstacles, and it paves the way for the shortest route to meet your vision.

I prefer to cite some examples, to this most theoretic discussion. But every successful person or company is a testimony to this. But there are people and companies who loss their track, and had to face a rude shock. Basics are basics, and never to be forgotten.

A writer being stuck, will have to choose between his writing, and wasting his time thinking about meeting temporary situations.

One way can lead to glory, and the other option make him fall on the wayside.

You can substitute any profession. If your interest and passion in it, you can feel solid inside out, and very soon, you can manifest to meet your cravings. And in the process you will minimize and crush all distractions and obstacles.

The only exception can be when there's no value or no one values  your interest or passion, in such case, you  have to really think hard. Frankly I'm yet to find an interest or passion which can't be monetized!

A seasoned sales person,I spoke to , thinks that positioning your brand is a luxury,as he representing an IT startup, he's struggling to survive, trying to cater to all kinds of businesses. But he can definitely fare better, by right positioning his company, and clearly defining his value proposition.

I believe this is the only way to live life to the fullest, and by following  the lesson you know how not to live, and how to take best care of your only life here on earth. Equally applies for companies.

5 ideas to cope with high population growth

While we Indians boast about being the world's biggest democracy, there's pain in the ass, being the most populated country. This post is not to discuss about benefits plus to huge populations.

And our population growth is quite alarming that by 2028, will become most populous nation in the world, beating China.

It is expected to increase by 400 million by 2050 which will equal to the populations of the U.S. and China combined.

India covers only 3.4 per cent of the land surface of the globe. That presents us with biggest problem of space congestion, apart from resources crunch in multiple aspects.

 

70 years ago

In 1940s, our population used to be less than 40 crores. And the birth rate used to be at 34.5 per 1,000 and the death rate at 22.4, there is no solution to the problem of such overwhelming population increase, whatever may be done agriculturally, industrially, politically.

Millions of Indians are born, live, breed, and die on the side walks and never have a roof over their heads.

Modern contraceptive techniques were certainly out of reach of such women, financially, intellectually, and practically. While it was case of 1940s, even after 70 years, the net growth is no less.

While we don't have food supply problem any more as it used to be, we are very much vulnerable to all other possible problems, thanks to failure of population control measures.

As per 2011 data,

• current birth rate is 20.97 births/1,000 population


• Death rate is 7.48 deaths/1,000 population

The net rate of growth remains quite high and increasing, thanks to scientific and  medical advances in increasing average human life expectancy.

Population density
India's  current population density is  421 people per sq km of land area and has been almost continuously on the rise.

We have more people in a sq km compared to many countries. Long back Indian Govt has brought up urban ceiling act, to ensure land pockets are not vested in few wealthy individuals, but others also to have ownership.

So how to we cater to increase land mass to meet the needs of growing population? It might be futuristic question, but we all have some good preparation & strategy in place when we are pushed to the corner. Hope that's far from now. So are our following ideas, to tackle the situation. At the outset, they are very unusual, and perhaps unthinkable.  But it's natural.

Out of the box ideas to cope with challenges

1. Increase land mass                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The biggest challenge is how to achieve this !  Which countries have maximum land, and why would they be generous in sharing the same with India?   We don't know, but we have to try at least. There are vast stretches of uninhabited lands in countries like China & Russia. It's unusual even think of getting the required support or cooperation from them. But we are to respond to, as we will soon be going through unusual times with unprecedented challenges.


2. alternate housing strategies, to optimise usage in a given land to increase affordable housing.


3. Control birth rate
   While this is not an out of the box idea,  the government has to focus its efforts on socially conservative and poorer north Indian states, where fertility rates are quite high.
   For this we must go back to past & see where these succeeded and where it failed and why.  While being democratic in spirit & free enterprise system, we must have some discipline imposed on us, at least in this aspect.

Moon, other solar system & galaxy   To be pursued with urgency. While it has been so far proactive, and seen as optional, it should be thoroughly seen if this can be viable option. This is where we have high uncertainty as well as unlimited possibilities!

1. To live on water
   
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   In countries like US and in certain parts of Europe , there have been dwellings formed as boat houses, for simple reason that, they were not able to afford to land costs. While what happened there is not absolutely true, that gives us some grey area to deliberate upon. While it can't be an affordable housing solution, while carrying other dangers of water pollutions & climatic uncertainties.

The discussion will be on...and would like to know what your thoughts.