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Nirmaan Scholarship Program 2010

Nirmaan Scholarship aims to provide monetary help and career guidance to the meritorious but financially constrained students to pursue their professional degrees.

Calling for New Applications

Application Process:

Eligibility Criteria:

The students should get admitted into/be pursuing graduation degrees like B.E/B.Tech, MBBS, B.Pharm,Defense or any other equivalent degree in a reputed university (OR) The students should get admitted into/be pursuing post graduation degrees like M.Sc, M.Com, MCA or any other equivalent courses.

Some key points to be noted are:

  • Parent's income must not exceed an amount of 1 Lakh Rupees per year, and
  • The student must secure a minimum of 60% in his previous academic year.

Application procedure: 

1. The candidate must fill the Nirmaan_Application_Form and mail it to nirmaanscholarshipprogram@gmail.com on or before 25th July, 2010

2. He/She has to send the following documents after clearing the first level of scrutiny:

  • 10th marks memo
  • 12th marks memo
  • Bonafide certificate / Admission card (in case of newly admitted students)
  • Latest marks memo
  • Income certificate of both the parents (in case of non salaried) / salary slip (if employed)
  • Statement of purpose (Explaining the need for application in a single A4 sheet)
  • Fee receipts

3. Renewal of Previous Scholarships: The following list of students who received Nirmaan scholarships in 2008-09 and/or 2009-10 can apply for scholarship even this year. Students have to fill the Renewal Form and follow the guidelines specified in it to send all the required documents. The deadline for submission of the documents along with the application form is 15th July, 2010.

Please note that applications submitted after the deadline would be rejected.

If any queries, contact us at:

Email: kalyan.kadiyala@gmail.com, f2003634@gmail.com

Ph: 07829909331, 09833211756

 

Please see more about the scholarship program here.
Nirmaan Scholarship Team 2010-11

'Education HelpLine (Enlightening Young India)' - a new initiative of Nirmaan in the field of education.
The main aim of the project is to give expert academic and career guidance to, specially, the economically backward students in rural areas through a toll-free helpline. The helpline, also, plans to provide scholarships availability and jobs availability to the beneficiaries in the future.

Education Help Line has been officially launched by the honourable Home Minister of Andhra Pradesh Smt. Sabitha Indra Reddy on 22nd May 2010. The project is implemented in official collaboration with Ranga Reddy district administration - Rajeev Vidya Mission for the entire Ranga Reddy district, Andhra Pradesh.

Education HelpLine aims the following via Tele Counselling, Workshops and Class room modules

  • Provides a free and easily accessible service via a Toll Free Number - 1800 425 2426 to touch every student from all villages and enlightening them about the educational and career opportunities that are available.
  • Inspires students in achieving great milestones by engaging them with their role models and experts in their aspiring fields.
  • Facililtates smooth transition to higher education

For more information about Education HelpLine - visit this
Snaps: Education HelpLine Inauguration


DHITI ’10 – Technology Reaching its Destiny

DHITIis an event conducted by NIRMAAN in APOGEE-2010, BITS Pilani’s annualtechnical festival, seeking the best minds all over the world to comeup with innovative, yet feasible solutions for the common man of ourcountry and change the face of our nation.

The event was successfully completed on 12th Mar'2010. A brief information about DHITI can be found below.

A platform for engineers all over the globe to take technology to its destiny.

Thoughwe have remarkably skilled engineers in India, our engineering,innovative and groundbreaking solutions hardly reach to the poor, whereit is needed the most. To protract this knowledge to the grassroots, wepresent to you DHITI(Sanskrit for 'An Idea'), where in, you have todesign effective, efficient, feasible and economical modules to curbthe potential problems of India. Participants will be provided withcertain broad areas and a gist on each of them. Their solutions ormodels should be targeted at solving the problems faced in those areas.

Come this March, take your

THOUGHTS INTO IDEAS.... 

IDEAS INTO ACTIONS.... 

ACTIONS INTO IMPLEMENTATION....

Your thoughts and ideas can 

  • Change the face of the Country  
  • Make a difference to the poor 
  • Better their lives 
  • But above all, CREATE SMILES!!!  

Here at

DHITI - 2010

For more details, refer Dhiti 


SAHAAYA - Nirmaan Flood Relief & Rehabilitation Camp

Though the memories of the disaster caused due to Tsunami have not been washed out of our minds, another natural calamity in the form of floods in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka during September month had stuck everyone in grief. Many people had lost their living, crops had been completely washed off and most of the villages like Singavaram, Krishnalanka were entirely marooned.

Nirmaan's Operation Sahaaya targetted on providing sustainable help with focus on providing livelihood and education help to the flood victims of Sunkhesula Village in Kurnool District. It is completed with a resounding success on 31st January 2010 in Kurnool with the august presence of the Collector, Local  MLAs, Flood victims and supporters.

Accomplishments:

1. Livelihood Help

          1) Distribution of musical instruments and puppetsto the puppet community of 25 families
        2) Distriubting livelihood aids like fisher nets,carpentary tools, sewing machines to help the families surviving on that livelihoodto regain their earnings
        3) A generic solution of providing sheep/goatto the agricultural labourers to help them gain a financial security consideringall the constraints.

2. Education Help

          1) Uniforms distribution to the students of twoprimary schools and two anganvaadi schools.
        2) Scholarship distribution to under graduatestudents who are the verge of dropping out.

Please find more details, media reports and pictures of Operation Sahayaa here.


SHG Product - Laptop Covers

Nirmaan Pilani is planning to launch 'Laptop cover' as a product in one of our SHGs. So please provide your feedback about this product and help the SHG in coming out with a quality product at a suitable price.

Unlike the regular bulky laptop bags that you get along with a laptop, this slim carrier is compact and light and yet is large enough to hold your laptop, files and other accessories. It can be used both while working on the laptop and carrying it. This light weighted product also protects your laptop from dust and scratches. Please go through brochure for more details.

You can submit your feedback in this form.  

Thank You!!

 For any more details you can contact Archana, coordinator for SHG project @ archana.kashikar@gmail.com


Nirmaan has taken up the case of Andhra Pradesh, Intermediate Board Topper Mr.Nagesh to support financially

Mr. Nagesh, who scripted splendid success story by scoring 993/1000 in board exams and has secured an admission in BITS, Pilani.
An article about him was published in leading Telugu circulated Newspaper - Eenadu on 2nd july that Mr.Nagesh comes from an
economically backward family and his looking for financial aid.

In response to the article, Nirmaan has contacted Mr. Nagesh and has promised to support him with the admission and
first semester fees. BITSAA '80 batch and Nirmaan together will be sponsoring the student.

We have raised funds to support him and now he joined in BITS Pilani and studying well.

We thank every one for extending their help for this noble cause.

Media links :
 
1. For more details :

REFULGENCE'09:  AN ALL-INDIA SOCIAL BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION 4th-5th April'09
It is an All India Social B-plan Contest seeking ideas that can change the future of the country.
A platform for students to dream big..

 Ideas….

  That can build a prosperous India
  That help create basic livelihood opportunities in rural India
  That provide knowledge and technology to “employ themselves”
  That will be applicable to the larger Indian community
  That are implementable, sustainable and scalable.
  That are innovative and solve contemporary problems.

Sponsored By: Colon K-  http://www.colonk.com//  

                                                 For more details refer-:  http://nirmaan.org/refulgence-2k9/home.html


Nirmaan at APOGEE - 2K9, BITS Pilani (23rd - 27th March)

A Professions Oriented Gathering over Educational Experience is the annual academic festival of BITS-Pilani.

Nirmaan conducted 3 major events this APOGEE.

The India Quiz -The India Quiz is a platform for testing you IQ (Indian Quotient).

This has been the event which saw the highest participation of 270 teams in APOGEE – 2K5, 305 teams in APOGEE – 2K6,

321 teams in APOGEE – 2K7 and 331 teams in APOGEE - 2K8.  

 

E - SolV - Engineering Solutions for Villages, this is a contest to show-case the engineering skills and 

at the same time makes a difference to the people living in rural INDIA. We present the potential problems of rural INDIA.

The contestants have to apply their engineering skills and should come up with an effective, efficient, feasible and

economic solution without any compromise on its workability.

 

Techno Vision -  We invited innovative models and imaginative approaches in the application of technology and in solving problems that plague INDIA in the form of Paper Presentation.

 

For more details about each event click APOGEE2K9


Workshop on Social Entrepreneurship

Nirmaan BITS Pilani has organized a workshop on Social Entrepreneurship that comprised of making the students aware of the concepts to make a Business Plan, Social Entrepreneurship. Eminent speakers from all-over INDIA had delivered their talks on these issues in a highly energetic session. 

Following are the brief profiles of all the speakers.

For more information, please visit http://refulgence2k9.blogspot.com/

Sri. SUNIL HANDA: Professor at IIM-Ahmadabad and Founder of the Eklavya Education Foundation- a no-profit no-loss endeavor, is both an entrepreneur with a difference and a teacher with a purpose 

Sri. V K DESAI: V K Desai is a mechanical engineer and a law graduate. After working for fourteen years he left his job in 1982 and founded TINYTECH PLANTS. From then onwards he is deeply engrossed in development of small and simple technology for creating and strengthening local economy.  

Mr.KAVIKRUT: Mr. Kavikrut is Business Manager, Piramal Group. He was Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Mobile Medics, being responsible for leading the operation at Pilani. He graduated in MSc Tech. Finance program from BITS Pilani. In 2006, Mr. Kavikrut was named one of 30 BITSians under the age of 30 for outstanding leadership  

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