360 students get Tata Steel Jyoti fellowship

A total of 360 students from different schools and colleges at Kalinganagar and its periphery areas in Jajpur district received the Tata’ Steel Jyoti Fellowship at Kalinganagar on Wednesday. The recipients included two BTech student, a Diploma student, 15 +3 students, 109 Plus-2 students and 233 school students from Class-VIII to Class-X. As guests, Sukinda MlA Pritiranjan Ghadai,  Kalinganagar Project GM Prasant Mallick, Danagadi Block Chairman lalita Ray awarded the fellowship.

This year, the fellowship included cash, certificates, tablets and wrist watches. The cash amounts were Rs 3,750 for Class-VIII, Rs 4,500 for Class-IX, Rs 4,500 for Class-X, Rs 8,500 for Plus-2, Rs 8,500 for Plus-3, Rs 10,000 for Diploma and Rs 25,000 for BTech students, per annum. The top 15 meritorious students were provided with tabs while only Class-VIII students got wrist watches in the fellowship. The fellowship, awarded by the Tribal Cultural Society, promoted by the Tata Steel, aims at supporting education of underprivileged SC and ST students.