Acknowledged as an ace artiste, one of lPU students has been awarded Rs 1.2 lakh scholarship by Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
Puneet Kumar Mishra, a student of BTech (ECE) final semester, is one among 30 young theatre artistes of India who have won scholarships this year. Puneet will receive Rs 5,000 per month for two years to undergo training to develop folk theatre. Recommended as a result of preliminary selection, Puneet further performed before an expert committee and got selected on merit.
Ministry of Culture awards 400 scholarships every year to Young Artistes of the country in different cultural fields. Many thousand applicants apply for these coveted scholarships which provide assistance to outstanding young artistes for advanced training within India. Different cultural fields include Indian classical music, Indian classical dance, theatre, mime, visual art, folk, traditional and indigenous arts and light classical music.