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Ten Goan students have been awarded grants under the Goa Scholars Scheme for higher education, with results announced immediately after interviews to ensure transparency. The scheme, initiated in 2003-04, aims to promote postgraduate studies based on merit, providing 2 lakh per year for two years in India and a one-time grant of $15,000 for studies abroad. This year, 47 students applied, with a high-powered committee selecting the recipients for various prestigious programs in India and the USA.

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Ten Goan Scholars Chosen For Grants For Higher Studies - Times of India

Ten Goan students have been awarded grants under the Goa Scholars Scheme for higher education, with results announced immediately after interviews to ensure transparency. The scheme, initiated in 2003-04, aims to promote postgraduate studies based on merit, providing 2 lakh per year for two years in India and a one-time grant of $15,000 for studies abroad. This year, 47 students applied, with a high-powered committee selecting the recipients for various prestigious programs in India and the USA.

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Ten Goan scholars chosen for grants for higher studies - Times of India 05/11/24, 12:03 AM

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TNN | Aug 4, 2011, 04.06 AM IST

PANAJI: Ten Goan students have been chosen this year under the Goa Scholars Scheme for grants to pursue
higher education in reputed institutes in India and abroad.
For the first time, the names of the students were announced within an hour of the interviews being completed
to bring about transparency in the process of selection.

"The interviews were conducted yesterday and today and the results were declared within an hour of the
interview round being completed. This will lay to rest doubts, if any, over manipulation of names of the chosen
candidates under the scheme, bringing about transparency in the process," director of higher education Bhaskar
Nayak told TOI on Wednesday.
The Goa Scholars Scheme was initiated in 2003-04. Since its inception, 54 Goan students have been awarded the
prestigious scholarships. Most of these students have completed their studies and are presently pursuing various
vocations in India and abroad.

The basic objective of the scholarship is to promote the pursuit of postgraduate studies by the younger
population of Goa by way of recognizing merit. The scheme awards scholarships based on merit alone.

Under the scholarship, 2 lakh per year is provided to the selected candidates for two years to pursue higher
studies in India and a one-time grant of US $ 15,000 to pursue studies abroad.

During the current year, 47 students applied for the scheme, out which 29 students were shortlisted for the
interview round, based on completely transparent yardsticks.

A high-powered committee under the chairmanship of Anil Kakodkar, chairman, Atomic Commission of India,
was constituted to select the 'Goa Scholars'.

Names of the candidates chosen for the scholarships unanimously for 2011-12 are Girish A Shenvi Malkarnekar for
masters in computer science at the University of Texas at Austin; Chinmay Sripad Bhat for a postgraduate
progamme in management at IIM, Shillong; Jonathan Fernandes for PhD in mathematics at University of
Maryland, USA; Pralav Pramod Dessai for masters in computer science university of California Los Angeles; Arjun
Pundalik Kamat for masters in communications-radio engineering, Finland; Neeraj Pai for master in electrical
and electronics engineering, University of Florida, USA; Avinash Waman Prabhu for masters in industrial
engineering (manufacturing), the Ohio State University, USA; Priam Mario Fernandes for masters of science in
engineering aerospace, University of Michigan, USA; Siddi Kashinath Jalmi for P D National Institute of Plant
Genome Research and Shanti Serena D'Souza for masters in immunology at Kings College, London.

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