PANAJI: The Directorate of Higher Education has chosen 30 students for the Manohar Parragar Goa Scholarship Scheme for 2020-21.
Under the scheme, the State provides scholarships to choose students to go to pursue their graduate and doctoral studies at prestigious universities in India and abroad.
The selected scholars who will pursue their higher education at the Institutes abroad are Bernice Jessica de Souza (UK), Julian Reuben D’Costa (UK), Aarati Ashok Joshi (Germany), Reuben Arvind Rajadhyaksha (Netherlands), Tarun de Maria Mascarenhas (Germany)), Shruti Mukherjee (England) and Ved Shrivallabh Dubhashi (Netherlands).
This scheme is conceptualized by former CM CM Manohar Parragar with the aim of identifying and encouraging extraordinary young scholars from Goa to pursue further education.
Overall, 160 students signed up for the Bachelor Scheme of Manohar Parragar GOA 2018 for the 2020-21 academic year.
Students who have received scholarships to pursue higher education in the US include Shreyas Sudhir Puriab, Rahul Fernando Falcao da Gama Paes, Vaibhav Vivek Kamat, Manpreet Kaur, Rajas Premanand Chari, and Pranaav Ajay Khadpe.
The selection committee was led by Gopal Mugeraya, Director of the National Institute of Technology – Goa.
Students who have received scholarships to pursue their higher education at the famous Institute in India including Srinidhi Sharad Pawar, Sampada Vijaykumar Shendure, Manasi Deepak Kamat, Shantadurga Rajeev Desai, Abhijit Narasinha Markande, Siddhant Premanand Phadte, Sharmad Sasha Viegas, Rashmi Sasha Viegas, Sharoni Sharma, Leo Francisco Blaise d’Souza, Charmaine Lorretta Fernandes and Prachi Ranganath rose.
Selected students come from various fields such as computer science, behavioral and cognitive neuroscience techniques, physics, management, statistics, medical technology, chemistry, microbiology, pharmaceutical, linguistics, governance and public policy etc.
Anushka Amarnath Panjikar, Vasu Mohan Gupta, and Raghavendra Nagaraj Verthera will also take higher studies in India with a scholarship.