Education India Project #1066

Providing Scholarship for Graduate Study in India

by D VIRMANI EDUCATION TRUST & MANAGEMENT SOCIETY

Project Report | Jul 26, 2007
Virmani scholarships to needy students

By Anil K Virmani | Manager

The program for providing scholarships to meritous and needy students to encourage them to persue higher studies by reducing their financial burden is progressing well. Last year an amount of Rs.200000/- US$4878.00 was paid as scholarships to 17 studendents, studying Engineering and Accountancy. New admissions take place in August and this year we propose to pay out Rs.300000/- US$7317.00 as scholarships to 21 students. Photographs of 2 scholarship awardees are attached. Raj Kumar comes from an extremely poor family. He passed out of school in 2001 securing 98%. He has completed his B Com(Hons) and is pursuing his Chartered Accountancy course. M/sD.P.Khosla & Co. under whom he is doing his articles have given him an excellent report.He has passed his CA PE II group II with 67.33% in Cost Accounting, with 76% in Financial management and 67% in Infirmation Technology. He is now in his final year. Ashok Kumar's father is a constable in the Delhi police, his mother expired a few years back, he has three brothers who are studying. He passed out of school in 2004-05 and joined Punjab University for his BE(Electronics & Communications) and is doing well in his studies.He is also active in cultural and sports activities. We thank all our wellwishers and supporters for their donations and request them to also help us with constructive ideas and thoughts to take this program forward.

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Feb 7, 2007
Brief report of our RN Virmani scholarship program

By Anil Virmani | Project leader

We thank all our well wishers and supporters for their generous help in taking forward our mission to help the underpriveleged youth to realize their potential, and empower the illiterate to improve their standard of living.

Please read below a brief report of our RN Virmani scholarship program for the year 2006.

Best Wishes

Anil Virmani

The R.N. Virmani Memorial Endowment.

Report for the year 2006

The Dhanpatmal Virmani Education Trust started the R. N. Virmani Endowment in the year 2002. The purpose of scheme was to award scholarships to Indian Nationals for graduate studies in all fields, irrespective of caste, creed or community and to encourage meritorious and needy students to pursue higher studies. Those who come from a family with an annual income of less than Ps. 1,00,000/- US $ 2,200, are amongst the top five in the final class XII Board Examination and get admission into any professional or technical college are eligible.

The scheme has been very successful with the formation of a permanent corpus. The original donation of $ 15,000/- was made by Dr. Renu Virmani Finn, daughter of Mr. R. N. Virmani, her family and friends. We have received a total of Rs. 30,00,000 US $ 66,500 so far as contributions upto 31/12/06, and have been invested in Govt. of India Bonds. Our aim is now to build up a corpus of Ps. 1,00,00,000 US $ 2,00,000 so that more students can benefit form this scheme.

Until September 2006 the following students were covered by the scheme.

1. Ram Swaroop Vij Chartered Accountancy 2. Dinesh K. Rana B. Tech., (Engineering) 3. Salvinder Singh B. Tech., (Engineering) 4. Nitin Chadha B. E. (Mech. Engineering) 5. Raj Kumar Chartered Accountancy 6. Tarun Yadav B. Tech., (Mech. & Auto Engineering)

The following six more students were awarded a scholarship in October 2006.

1. Jogender Rana B. Tech., (Engineering) 2. Gurpreet Singh Sandhu B. Tech., (Engineering) 3. Siddhartha Kain B. Tech., (Engineering) 4. Vishwas Miglani B. Sc., (Hons) 5. Deepak Parashar Bio Tech., 6. Ankur Sharma Chartered Accountancy

During the financial year 2005-06 Ps. 78,000/- US $ 1,735 was paid out as scholarships. During the year 2006-07 we expect to disburse Rs. 2,00,000/- US $ 4,500 to benefit more students.

There has been a marked improvement in the students’ performance since the induction of the RNV scholarship program. Details of activities of the P. N. Virmani Memorial Endowment were put on the website of and we will try to keep this website updated.

Our mission is to work relentlessly towards the upliftment of the economically deprived sections of society by operating 2 schools, the Adult Education centers and awarding scholarships to meritous and needy students to pursue higher studies in colleges in India.

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