Chandigarh University introduces scholarship to promote education among women

Chandigarh University, on International Mother’s Day i.e. May 10, 2020, took an initiative to empower education among women. 

Chandigarh University, on International Mother’s Day i.e. May 10, 2020, took an initiative to empower education among women. The University launched a scholarship plan for all its distance education programmes of the July 2020 session to promote women empowerment.

According to the official statement, under the plan, the University will offer 20% academic scholarship to housewives, Anganwadi worker, Asha workers, women working in government and private sectors, those working in unorganised sector and female student who dropped-out, for all of its distance learning courses and online education programmes.

Talking about the noble initiative taken by the varsity, the Vice-chancellor of the Chandigarh University, Satnam Singh Sandhu said, “We are offering academic scholarships to encourage women to continue with higher education.”

Earlier, Chandigarh University released the ‘COVID-10 warriors scholarship scheme’ worth Rs 5 crore for the individuals who are fighting against coronavirus. The scheme is applicable to their wards as well. The list of COVID-19 warrior includes doctors, nurses, para-medical staff, housekeeping staff of hospitals, police personnel of all Indian states, paramilitary forces, media persons and sanitation workers.

According to reports, under this scheme, Chandigarh University will reserve 10 per cent seats in all its offered undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for the wards of COVID-19 warriors. Also, the students enrolled under this category would be eligible for the 10 per cent fee rebate until the completion of the programme.

Meanwhile, a team from the University also did a distribution drive of hand sanitizer and distributed 3500 litres of sanitizers to Punjab Police, AIIMS New Delhi, old age homes, orphanages and villages of Chandigarh and Mohali.

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