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• The scholarship has been extended to a total of 391 students and 32 sports achievers from Pune
• The scheme is a part of one of the 4 welfare schemes that were announced by ‘Saharasri’ Subrata Roy Sahara – Managing Worker & Chairman, Sahara India Pariwar

Pune, February 26, 2013: Sahara India Pariwar, a major business conglomerate of India, today provided scholarship to 391 meritorious students and 32 sports achievers of Pune district who belong to lower strata of the society. Out of these 391 students, the scholarship was extended to 191 students at Graduation level and 200 students at Post-Graduation level. The meritorious students at Graduation level will be provided Rs. 750 per month (Rs. 9,000/- annually) as scholarship while students at Post-Graduation level will be provided Rs. 1,500 per month (Rs. 18,000/- annually). Out of these 32 sport achievers, the scholarship was extended to 20 State level achievers (Rs.60,000 /- annually), 9 National level (Rs.1,20,000 /- annually) and 3 International level (Rs.2,40,000 /- annually) The Guest of Honour for the event was Dr. Arun Adsool, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Pune University and Mr. Balkrishna Akotkar, Ex Olympian.

Under the Scholarship Scheme for the Meritorious Students of Low Income Group for the academic year 2012-2013, Sahara India Pariwar had invited applications from the Students. From the total of 1300 application received, 191 students at graduation level and 200 students at post-graduate level have been selected whose monthly income is below Rs.3 lac. The scholarship scheme for meritorious students is a part of one of the 4 welfare schemes that were announced by ‘Saharasri’ Subrata Roy Sahara – Managing Worker & Chairman, Sahara India Pariwar. The other schemes include Individual accident cover to the 17.07 lakh voters of Pune Lok Sabha constituency wherein Rupees One lakh will be provided as financial assistance to the nominee from the family of the deceased whose death has been occurred in a road accident. Similarly Scholarship is also awarded to the promising sportspersons of Pune