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BREAD Scholarships :

BREAD Society was awarding scholarships for professional courses of B.Tech and M.B.B.S. till 2003. A field study conducted by BREAD Society in 2002 has led to opening up all courses of higher education for assistance under the “BREAD Scholarship” programme in 2003.

Update :
BREAD Society India Scholarship 2017 : www.scholarships.net.in/16992.html

Governing Body of BREAD Society under the Chairmanship of Dr. P M Bhargava, former director of CCMB and Ex-Vice Chairman, National Knowledge Commission has revised eligibility criteria for scholarships based on recommendations of the field study in 2003. It identified students with govt. high school education background as belonging to marginalized sections of the society. In Andhra Pradesh BREAD Society gave scholarships to about 3400 brilliant students from among them to pursue higher education in govt. institutions in any branch of education. It also gave scholarships for further higher courses of study to enable them to attain their maximum potential.

In 2009-10, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh has waived tuition fee for higher education for certain categories of students and from the following year to almost all categories of students with annual parental income below Rs. 1 lakh. BREAD Society, therefore, discontinued its scholarship program and instead took up the program of setting up Children’s Libraries in govt. high schools.

47% of BREAD scholarships were given to Vocational Diploma courses in Engineering, Teacher Training and Pharmacy. Another 47% scholarships were awarded to Undergraduate non-professional courses (B.Sc., B.Com. and B.A.) and Intermediate courses. This shows that BREAD awarded 94% of about 3400 scholarships to brilliant marginalized students for courses they could afford to pursue. Only 4% students could secure admissions in professional degree courses while the remaining 2% students pursued PG non-professional courses.

BREAD gave away more than 9,000 scholarships to about 3400 students, all of them from govt. high schools who have continued their education in govt. colleges, strictly adhering to prescribed norms in implementing the Scholarship program. About one-third of BREAD scholars were assisted till the completion of their courses while the remaining two-thirds of them could be assisted partially.

There are several reasons for this situation. :
** Firstly, we received a huge amount of contribution in October 2007. We could award substantially large number of fresh scholarships in 2007-08 and 2008-09. Unfortunately, we had to discontinue renewing most of these scholarships because govt. had stepped in with its scholarship program in 2009-10 for most categories of students.
** Our ACE program was not a very successful program as envisaged. Also, students from govt. schools could not cope up with teaching in govt. junior colleges as the medium of instruction shifted from vernacular to English. Teaching itself left much to be desired. It was sporadic and syllabus was hardly covered. Contract teachers with little or no teaching experience were appointed for a span of about 5 to 6 months in the year.
** Our norms for renewal of scholarships were as nearly as steep as for fresh scholars.