Human Welfare Foundation, New Delhi and P.M. Foundation, Kerala will jointly organise a programme to felicitate 2000 Muslim meritorious students from four states of India.
The awards distribution ceremony will be held in Bihar, U.P., Assam, and West Bengal on September 26, October 3, October 10, and November 29 respectively. The students will be awarded mementos and cash prizes during these award distribution ceremonies. Apart from the minority meritorious students, the Foundation will also give awards to best minority schools whose performance and records had been excellent in previous years.
After award distribution ceremonies the Foundation will hold talent search test to evaluate the performance and ability of students and thereafter it will provide career counselling for them so that they may choose best courses according to their ability and interest. The Foundation will also offer scholarships to poor students.
Last year, HWF and P.M. Foundation organised the programme in U.P. on November 8 and awarded 735 Muslim meritorious students coming from 46 districts of U.P. Many important personalities, social activists, educationists and leaders made their valuable participation therein and encouraged and appealed to the students to do better in their examinations and be part of nation building.
The general Secretary of HWF, Prof. K.A. Siddique Hassan said the Foundation is organising awards distribution ceremonies in more states this year to promote Muslim students so that they can do better in their near future.
He said the trend of joining only medical and engineering is old; now there are many courses and the students can avail themselves of the opportunities and select the courses according to their interest and do better in their future rather than selecting those courses in which they have no interest and thus wasting their valuable time.
He emphasised that right after Justice Sachar Committee Report we have started an NGO, Vision 2016 to uplift Muslims educationally, socially and economically.
He further said that if students do better in their career then they will certainly get good job and automatically the economical condition of Muslim families will improve.
He said that this is one such step of Vision 2016 programme to encourage students so that those who have appeared in board examinations in 2010 might do more excellently in their further examinations and other students who will appear in coming board examinations might also be encouraged.
The Foundation is running many schools and colleges, providing coaching classes, and offering scholarships to help poor students.