Hyderabad: There are few takers for the scholarships offered by the TS Brahmin Welfare Cor-poration to students from the Brahmin community. The corporation launched the Saraswathi Vidya Prashasti scheme to give financial assistance to meritorious Brahmin students.
Around 10,000 students were expected to apply, but only about 300 did. The scholarships are for students from SSC to post-graduate level and range in amount from Rs 7,500 to Rs 35,000 per student.
To qualify, students must get above 90 per cent marks in the SSC or equivalent exam, and must clear all the subjects in one go in all the years without any backlog.
SSC students will get scholarship of Rs 7,500, Intermediate/Polytechnic or equivalent will get Rs 10,000, degree students Rs 15,000, students pursuing professional education Rs 35,000 and post-graduate students, Rs 20,000 on a one-time basis.
Applications can be made on the website launched for the purpose. Applicants must submit nativity certificate, caste certificate, date of birth certificate, Aadhaar card, mark sheet, copy of bank pass book and photo, along with the application.
Corporation chairman and TS government adviser K.V. Ramanachary said that thousands of students from the Brahmin community excel in academics at different levels and different stages of the education ladder, but due to financial limitations, they cannot join the best higher educational institutions. It is to assist them that the Saraswati Vidya Prashasti scheme was launched.
He attributed the poor response to lack of awareness because the scholarship was not publicised.
