Digital Bharti Covid Scholarship

The second wave of the coronavirus pandemic has left many children orphaned and vulnerable across India. Countless children have lost both their parents, while many are merely surviving with a single parent, who is not able to support the children financially and emotionally. In most of such cases, the relatives, too, turn indifferent. These Covid orphans are often left with no support and enormous helplessness. The purpose of Digital Bharati, which is an initiative of PIIndia, is to support those students who have lost both or either of their parents in the current Covid-19 crisis. This project will provide them scholarships so that they can continue their education without any hindrance.

We are looking to support these students for a period of the next 5 years. On a need basis, they would be given coupons that they can utilize to purchase educational subscriptions at leading ed-tech companies. Also, students would be given access to laptops and tablets as well to further support their learning. More than 1 million deaths are likely due to the ongoing Covid crisis. This would involve 200,000 parents impacting nearly half a million children. 

Eligibility criteria:

* Need cum crisis based scholarship
* Students who lost their parent(s) since January 2020.
* No minimum academic percentage, however, students should be continuing their education.
* PAN India students are eligible to participate
* Death certificate along with an identity proof of parent/guardian
* Any guardian/parent can fill the form on behalf of student (Uncle, aunty, teacher, tutor, grandparents)
* Digital verification of selected beneficiaries.

 

The criteria for scholarship renewal

Based on the following criteria, students will be considered for their scholarship renewal in successive years

* No dropout (from regular academic sessions)
* Final decision by a selection committee based on student need as well as availability of resource

 

procedure for fund disbursement

 

Voucher codes will be transferred on an annual basis to students/guardians.

– Students need to meet renewal scholarship eligibility criteria and upload following documents in an online scholar tracking system.

* Admission proof that they have progressed in next year.
* Academic grade report that they passed the last exam