The Board of Trustees of Gujarat Vidyapith has decided in its meeting held in Kurukshetra that 100 students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels will be given ‘Chancellor’s Scholarship’ every year and five PhD students will be given a fellowship of Rs 25,000 per month every year.
The fourth meeting of the current board for 2024-25 was held at Gurukul in Haryana’s Kurukshetra under the chairmanship of the Chancellor and Governor Acharya Devvrat on March 21.
“Every year 100 toppers at the UG and PG level will be given ‘Chancellor’s Scholarship’. For this, Rs 10 lakh has been allocated. PhD students will be given fellowship under the ‘Gandhi Vichar Vistarak’ scheme. It has been decided to give a fellowship of Rs 25,000 per month to five students every year. A special allocation of Rs 50 lakh has been made for the research work of the professors of Gujarat Vidyapith,” said Harshad Patel, Vice-Chancellor, Gujarat Vidyapith.
A special allocation of Rs 50 lakh has also been approved for the centenary celebrations of graduation programme of the university, to be held on December 2, 2025. A plan to invite 10,000 Vidyapith alumni at the centenary convention has been made. Further, Rs 50 lakh has been allocated for the annual Gandhi Gramjivan Padyatra. The decision to start a fund office in the Pranjivan Vidyarthi Bhavan of Vidyapith, which will be chaired by Arvindbhai Bhandari whose appointment was made by the Board, has also been taken.
The meeting was attended by Patel, former Education Minister and Trustee Bhupendrasinh Chudasama; Chairman and Trustee of the Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural Development, Padma Bhushan Rajshree Birla; Trustees Krishna Kulkarni, Ayeshaben Patel, Dilip Thakar, Sureshbhai Ramanuj, Chandravadanbhai Shah and Vishal Bhadani.
187 students participate in Gujarat Vidyapith’s national hackathon
Bridging natural farming and conscious, empowering women technology for inclusion and safety, carbon footprint tracker — these were the three problem statements on which 50 teams worked for 24 hours at Gujarat Vidyapith on Sunday as part of the first hackathon organised by the university in its history of over 120 years.
For Hackathon’25, a total of 2,017 people — 1402 boys and 615 girls — from 370 institutions of different states, besides Gujarat, registered. At the end of the first round, the top 50 teams comprising 187 people — 142 boys and 45 girls — were shortlisted.
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Three problem statements were selected out of a total of 30 problem statements.
Students and teachers of MCA course at Gujarat Vidyapith had visited more than 80 engineering and MCA colleges in the state, encouraging people to participate in Hackathon’25, said Prof Ajay Parikh, Chairman, Computer Science Department, Gujarat Vidyapith.
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