Srinagar, May 1 (KNS): Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL) has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with the Indian Army and central paramilitary forces, including BSF, CRPF, and ITBP, to provide structured scholarships, academic mentoring, and nationwide coaching access to serving personnel, veterans, and their families, officials said.
The collaborations aim to remove financial barriers and enhance academic preparation for students aspiring to appear in competitive entrance examinations for engineering and medical courses, they added.
Under the MoUs, benefits extend to wards of martyrs, gallantry awardees, disabled personnel, and serving or retired personnel across forces.
For Indian Army families, a 100 per cent waiver on all fee components except registration fee has been announced for wards of personnel who died while in harness. Similarly, 100 per cent tuition fee waiver is provided for wards of gallantry awardees and those with over 20 per cent disability, while serving and retired personnel’s wards will get 20 per cent tuition fee waiver.
In BSF, 100 per cent waiver on tuition and academic charges (registration fee payable) is offered for wards of personnel who lost their lives in service. Wards of gallantry awardees or those with over 20 per cent disability will receive 90 per cent tuition fee waiver, officials said.
CRPF personnel’s wards will get 100 per cent waiver on tuition and academic charges (registration fee payable) if the personnel died on duty.
Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp ChannelThose with major disability are eligible for 100 per cent tuition fee waiver, while in-service and retired personnel along with gallantry awardees will get 22 per cent tuition fee waiver, which is over and above existing scholarship schemes.
For ITBP, 100 per cent waiver on all course fees (registration and admission fees payable) is extended to wards of martyrs, death-in-harness cases, boarded-out cases, disabled wards, and orphans. Gallantry award recipients or those with over 20 per cent disability will get 90 per cent tuition fee waiver, while serving and retired personnel’s wards will receive 20 per cent scholarship.
Addressing a function here, AESL Managing Director and CEO Chandra Sekhar Garisa Reddy said, "Anyone who has committed themselves to serving their country should have every available opportunity for their family to grow and succeed. Through these partnerships, we hope to expand access to quality academic resources and support our defence families in achieving educational success."
Additional support includes academic mentoring, career counselling, national-level scholarship exams like ANTHE, and access to AESL and defence school facilities. The multi-year programs are structured for three to five years to ensure sustained impact. (KNS).