Sixty-four tribal students, including 10 girls and 12 boys from the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), have been selected to get the Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for 2013-14.
last year, 15 students of the institute had won this prestigious scholarship. They are presently doing research methodology course work at the KISS. The students were selected after a thorough scrutiny by the UGC. The KISS students would get Rs 16,000 to Rs 18,000 per month as fellowship, besides annual contingency. KIIT and KISS founder Dr A Samanta has congratulated the students.