Legrand Empowering Scholarship Program is an initiative by Legrand under its CSR initiative to provide financial support to meritorious girl students, differently-abled girl students and transgender students to help them pursue their higher education. Under this program, academically promising girl students who have chosen to pursue B.Tech/BE/B.Arch./other graduation (Finance or Science) – BSC/BCOM/BBA/etc. will receive 60% of the annual course fee up to INR 60,000 per year and students in the special category* will receive 80% of the annual course fee up to INR 1,00,000 per year till the completion of their course based on their academic performances.
*Special category: Differently-abled students/transgender students/students with single parents/students who lost their parents due to COVID.
Lighting up millions of Indian homes, Legrand has been continuously empowering girl students to pursue higher education and become future women leaders in the field of Engineering and Architecture. In 2022, in its pursuit to promote diversity and inclusion, Legrand extended this scholarship program to differently-abled girl students and transgender students as well. Furthermore, the academic category of the program was also widened to Finance and Science graduation program apart from B.Tech. and B.Arch. courses. Till date, 400+ students have been able to avail of the support provided under this scholarship program.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
- Open for girl students across India only.
- Applicants must have gotten admission in B.Tech/BE/B.Arch./BBA/B.Com/B.Sc. (Math and Science) Degrees
- Applicants must have passed out class 12 in the year 2023–2024
- Applicants must have secured a minimum of 70% and above marks in Class 10 and 12 examinations. Exceptions given to the differently-abled girl students and transgender students.
- Annual family income of the applicant from all sources must be less than INR 5,00,000.
Last Date for Applications – 15.07.2024
