Children’s Day 2024: List of scholarships to help students achieve their dreams

Every year, on November 14, the country celebrates Children’s Day to commemorate the birth anniversary of India’s first Prime Minister, Pt Jawaharlal Nehru.
While we celebrate the day keeping in mind the children who will soon grow up to represent our tomorrow, the day also reminds us to pay attention to the overall development of these kids.
Education becomes an integral part of children’s overall development and needs to be available for all children, as it is their right to claim it. Here are some scholarship schemes for students that will help them dream big and achieve them with flying colours.
Launched on May 29, 2021, the PM CARES for Children Scheme aims to support children who have lost both their Parents or legal guardians or Adoptive Parents or Surviving Parent to the COVID-19 pandemic during the period starting from March 11, 2020.
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HDFC Bank Parivartan’s Educational Crisis Scholarship Support (ECSS) Programme is an initiative of HDFC Bank and aims to support deserving students belonging to underprivileged sections of society.
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An initiative by the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education, this scheme aims to offer 1,00,000 scholarships to students whose parental income is not more than ₹3,50,000/- per annum from all sources at the time of selection of awardees for a scholarship.
As per the scheme, each State/UT will conduct its own test at the stage of class 8th for the selection of students. The State Level Examination may consist of the following two tests:
1) Mental Ability Test (MAT), 90 minutes duration: 90 multiple-choice questions testing verbal and non-verbal meta-cognitive abilities like reasoning and critical thinking. The questions in the test may be on analogy. classification. numerical series, pattern perception, hidden figure, etc.
2) Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), 90 minutes duration: 90 multiple-choice questions covering subjects namely, science, social studies, and mathematics as taught in classes 7th and 8th.
For more information, visit the official website.
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