Chandigarh: Council gives nod for scholarship to students

Chandigarh, February 21

A meeting of the College Development Council (CDC), comprising fellows, principals of affiliated colleges and senior faculty members from university was held under the chairmanship of Prof Renu Vig, Vice Chancellor (VC), Panjab University, today. Prof Sanjay Kaushik, Dean, College Development Council (DCDC), Panjab University, started the meeting by reading out the agenda.

It was unanimously decided to grant scholarship to 826 eligible students for the session 2022-2023 and 480 students for the session 2023-2024.

These scholarships belong to categories that include means-cum-merit, physically challenged, sports, single girl child, AIDS and cancer patients and youth welfare for the session 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 from the budget head 2023-24.

Besides, a committee of the CDC granted honorarium Rs 3,000 each to nodal officers of colleges for the session 2023-24 from the budget head of the college development fund in the financial year 2023-24.

A financial subsidy

Rs 30,000 to 22 eligible affiliated colleges for organising seminar/symposium/workshop for the session 2023-24 was approved during the meeting. The committee also decided to enhance the financial subsidy to colleges for organising the seminar/symposium/workshop from

Rs 30,000 to Rs 40,000.

The subsidy for presenting paper in seminar/ symposium/workshop/conference within India was enhanced from Rs 20,000 to Rs 25,000 and outside India from Rs 70,000 to

Rs 80,000 from the next session 2024-25.