Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 9: A sensitization workshop on Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme for J&K was held in GCW, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu.
Dignitaries on the occasion were Sarita Chauhan, Commissioner Secretary Higher Education Depatment, Dr. A.S.Pant, Chairman, AICTE, Dr. R S Rathore Director J&K Cell AICTE, Dr. N.H. Siddhalingaswamy, Director e-governance AICTE.
The Commissioner Secretary apprised the audience about the Govt.’s initiatives to popularize this scheme for giving maximum benefit and exposure to the students hailing from every nook and corner of J&K. Dr. A.S.Pant, Chairman, AICTE made a power-point presentation to point out the mission, vision, objective, eligibility, reservation, distribution of scholarship, scope, selection procedure, duration of scholarship its renewal, implementation and monitoring.
The workshop was attended by all the Principals of various Degree Colleges of Jammu province along with team of faculty members /Assistants where the facilitation centres are to be established to help the aspiring students and Principals of Higher Secondary Schools of Jammu province to disseminate the salient features of the scheme to the students in respective school.
Various modalities of this scheme were discussed and stakeholders also interacted and clarified their doubts. Students were made aware of the Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme regarding Engineering, Medical Education General Education. They were also made aware of the web site portal http://aicte-jk-scholarship-gov.in on which details on all aspects of the scheme is given including list of all colleges/courses to which students can apply and requested them to apply online. The proceedings of the workshop were conducted by Dr. Manisha Kohli while Principal Kiran Bakshi presented formal welcome address.
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