By Parvinder Singh | Project Head
Dhanpatmal Virmani Education Trust & Management Society
Roop Nagar, Delhi-110007, Ph. 011-23848903
Email: virmanitrust@gmail.com, Web-site: www.virmanitrust.com
Date: 22-04-2014
R. N. VIRMANI MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT
“THE VIRMANI TRUST IS WORKING FOR A LIFE OF DIGINITY AND SELF RELIANCE FOR THE DISADVANTAGED.”
Providing Scholarship for Graduate Study in India (1066).
The Dhanpatmal Virmani Education Trust & Management Society is a non-profit organization with a significant record in creating opportunities in education. We founded the R. N. Virmani Memorial Endowment in the year 2002-03, to award scholarships to Indian Nationals for graduate studies in all fields, irrespective of caste, creed or community. The main aim was to encourage and help meritorious and needy students from low income families to pursue higher studies in Colleges/Universities in India. Students passing out from Class XII from Dhanpatmal Virmani Sr. Sec. School and who come from a family having an income of less than Rs.1, 00000/- ($1,600) annually are eligible. They also have to be among the top five in the 12th Sr. Sec. Examination in school and have admission in a recognized college. Preference is given to students getting into Professional/Technical Colleges i.e. Medical, Engineering/Technology and Management Institutions.
The Scholarship scheme has been very successfully implemented 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, members of her family and friends. We have received a total of Rs. 50.96 Lakhs ($84,334) as contribution up to 31-03-2014 which have been Invested in Govt. of India bonds and Banks. From the interest accruing from this corpus, the scholarship amount is given to the awardees. Our aim is to increase this corpus to Rs.1 crore ($1, 66,667) to enable us to award more scholarships.
So far, there are 28 recipients of the scholarship scheme and their detail is as under:-
Status of Students Engineering Chartered Accountancy B.sc/B.Com. Medical Total
Passed Out 11 03 02 -- 16
Studying Students 02 03 -- 01 06
Discontinued 03 03 -- 06
At present, there are 6 awardees - 3 are doing Chartered Accountancy, 2 are studying Engineering and one is in a medical course as under:
S.N. Name Course Name of College/University
1. Piyush Goel B.Tech Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha,
University, Delhi.
(He is in the seventh Semester)
2. Pragati Choudhary Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery
I.P. University, New Delhi.
(She is in the seventh Semester)
3. Tarun Kohli Chartered Accountancy New Delhi.
4. Vijay Kumar Chartered Accountancy New Delhi.
5. Sahil Gupta Chartered Accountancy New Delhi.
6. Amit Nailwal B. Tech Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi.
(He is in the second Semester)
The year wise amount paid to the scholarship awardees is as under:-
S.N Financial Year Amount
1. 2005-06 Rs. 78,000/-
2. 2006-07 Rs. 1, 21,000/-
3. 2007-08 Rs. 2, 44,000/-
4. 2008-09 Rs. 1, 92,000/-
5. 2009-10 Rs. 1, 98,000/-
6. 2010-11 Rs. 1, 20,000/-
7. 2011-12 Rs. 1, 23,000/-
8. 2012-13 Rs. 2, 25,000/-
9. 2013-14 Rs. 1, 04,000/-
Under the scheme, a student who is doing Engineering is getting Rs. 2,000/- per month and who is doing Chartered Accountancy is getting Rs. 1,000/- per month. Scholarship awardees after passing out are employed and some of them are getting attractive salaries.
We thank all our well wishers and supporters for their donations and request them to continue helping us for this noble cause in future as well. Your donations will help to build many careers.
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