Reliance Foundation Scholarships for UG and PG Studies: Apply by February 14

Applications have been invited for the Reliance Foundation Scholarships aimed to enable and propel India’s brightest youth, uniquely positioned to sit at the forefront of India’s technologically driven growth, to become leaders of tomorrow for benefit of society.

Scholarship aims to Nurturing India’s talented youth to be identified and selected students in India through a rigorous and competitive selection process, who have the potential to become future leaders of tomorrow for the benefit of society. Applicants are welcome from all socio-economic backgrounds and scholarships will be granted on the basis of merit. Up to 60 undergraduates and 40 postgraduate scholars will be selected.

At the undergraduate level, the total amount of scholarship available over the duration of the degree programme, will be up to Rs. 4 Lakhs. At the postgraduate level, the total amount of scholarship available over the duration of the degree programme, will be up to Rs. 6 Lakhs.

Applicant should be a resident Indian citizen. Applicant should be first year undergraduate and first year postgraduate students who are enrolled full-time degree programme in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Sciences, Mathematics and Computing, or Electrical and/or Electronics Engineering.

For Undergraduate Scholarship, applicant should have come in the Common Rank List of JEE (Main) Paper-1 securing a rank within 35,000. For Postgraduate Scholarship, applicant should have passed the GATE Examination and have secured a score of 550-1000 or Score in the Undergraduate CGPA (7.5 or above) or % normalised to CGPA. (Conversion formula CGPA=% of marks/9.5).
Those selected for the Undergraduate Scholarship can avail other partial scholarships.

At Postgraduate level, scholars will be required to provide details of any financial benefits from other sources. The Scholarship programme policy will permit stipends from other sources of up to a maximum of Rs 15,000 per month during the scholarship period.

To start the application, one will need to fill the online Eligibility Questionnaire at https://scholarships.reliancefoundation.org/. If the eligibility criteria are fulfilled, the applicant will be sent an email invitation with log-in information to apply through the application portal.

Applications will close at 11:59pm IST on Monday the 14 th February 2022.

Application should include (i) Personal, Academic and Extra-curricular details (ii) Two Letters of Reference: One that attests applicant’s academic capabilities and one that attests his/her character and leadership traits (iii) Two Essays: Personal Statement and Statement of Purpose.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend a virtual interview. Selection of Scholars will be announced in June 2022

For details, visit https://scholarships.reliancefoundation.org/