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Nurturing

and equipping

india’s youth

and future

global leaders

Supporting Higher For the academic year 2022-2023, the Reliance impact on their lives and career trajectories. Reliance different engagement sessions organised. These sessions

Education Through Foundation Undergraduate Scholarships will support Foundation Scholarships will nurture and support have Q&A sessions so it is good to know others’
Scholarships up to 5,000 meritorious undergraduate students per these bright students with a holistic development thoughts too”.

year in any stream on a merit-cum-means basis, programme, including expert interactions, industry
empowering them to continue their studies without exposure and volunteering opportunities creating a
Reliance has been providing scholarships to
financial burden. The Scholarships aim to enable cohort of excellence, every year.
meritorious students for over 25 years, inspired by
students to become successful professionals and realize
Reliance Founder-Chairman Shri Dhirubhai Ambani’s
their dreams, unlocking their potential to lift themselves Scholar Story
belief that the best way to ensure the nation’s progress
and their communities up, thereby contributing
is to invest in its youth. Over the years, Reliance Rohit Taparia, one of the Reliance Foundation Scholar
towards India’s future socio-economic development.
Foundation scholarship initiatives have impacted the is now pursuing third-year, B.Tech (IT) at National
lives of almost 12,700 youth across India. The Reliance Foundation Postgraduate Scholarships Institute of Technology, Karnataka. He says “They
aim to enable and propel up to 100 of India’s most want to select future leaders in India’s tech growth.
In June 2022, Reliance Foundation selected 100
talented postgraduate students who can think big, If I am getting the Reliance Foundation Scholarship,
scholars from some of India’s top educational think green, think digital for the benefit of society, I want to justify it”. Rohit shares that when he first got
institutions to join a pioneering programme that aims creating a cohort of excellence every year. This the email of receiving the scholarships, he ran to tell
to nurture leaders of tomorrow in the fields of frontier merit-based scholarship aims to identify and nurture his mother and then to the temple and thanked God!

sciences and engineering that are playing a key role in leaders of tomorrow and will be awarded following a He says, “This Scholarship boosted my confidence”.
shaping India’s future for social good. rigorous selection process, including interviews with For students like Rohit, the Reliance Foundation

In December 2022, on the 90th birth anniversary of leading experts. Scholarships have opened up avenues that enable

Shri Dhirubhai Ambani, Reliance Foundation once In addition to the scholarships grant, the Reliance them to explore the field a bit more, “Reliance
again extended its support to India’s youth with a Foundation Scholarships will provide scholars an Foundation Scholarships already covers my fees and
commitment to support an additional 50,000 students opportunity to be part of a vibrant alumni network and expenses and this has relieved a huge financial

with scholarships over the next 10 years. an enabling support system that will create long-term burden”. He adds, “I have also been attending the