A total of 293 meritorious children of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) employees received scholarship at a function organised by the Education Department of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) at Nehru House of Culture, Sector-1 here.The children received the Prime Minister’s Trophy and SAIl scholarships, according to a BSP press release issued here on Sunday.BSP Chief Executive Officer S Chandrasekaran was the chief guest.
SB Jagdale, ED I/c (Projects), lT Sherpa, ED (P&A), PK Sinha, ED (Mines-Rowghat), SK Saha, ED (Mines), General Managers, senior officers, employees, parents of the recipients and the recipients in large numbers were also present on the occasion.Speaking on the occasion, Chandrasekaran said that presenting scholarships to the meritorious students is an extremely happy moment.
By sheer dint of hard work and merit, the wards selected for these scholarships, have made a place for themselves in the country’s premier institutions of learning. Thus, they have made their parents and the Steel collective proud, he said.Chandrasekaran advised the parents not to allow pressure on their wards, but to encourage them to imbibe learning in a natural manner.
The scholarships were being distributed for the academic year 2014-15 and include the PM’s Trophy Sarvottam Scholarships, PM’s Trophy Merit and PM’s Trophy Merit-cum-Means Scholarships and SAIl Scholarship to a total of 293 students.Of these 60 received the PM’s Trophy Sarvottam Scholarships, 180 received the PM’s Trophy Merit and PM’s Trophy Merit-cum-Means Scholarships, 49 students received the SAIl Merit/Merit cum Means Scholarships and 4 physically challenged also received the SAIl scholarships.
At the outset, Saurav Sinha, DGM (Education), BSP welcomed the dignitaries, guests and scholarship recipients and briefed them about the scholarship scheme. It may be recalled that the PM’s Trophy Scholarship scheme was started in the academic year 1995-96 following Bhilai Steel Plant being awarded the inaugural PM’s Trophy in 1992-93.
SAIl’s premier Plant has won the prestigious PM’s trophy an unprecedented 11 times. By the academic year 2014-15, that is 20 years since the PM’s Trophy Scholarship scheme was started, 4397 student-wards of BSP employees have benefitted with the award of these scholarships.The programme was conducted by Sushri Anjalika and Sushri Jaya Ghosh. AK Verma, Senior Manager (Education) proposed the vote of thanks.