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has felicitated students from
IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur and PEC University of Technology, by offering
scholarship to study in the prestigious Universities of Japan, as a
part of Panasonic Scholarship Program 2011. This program offers
financial assistance to promising students who have the potential to
contribute to the development of India and to promote mutual
friendship between India and Japan. Kazuhiro Kawano, President of
Panasonic Scholarship, Japan, Hidenori Asou, MD, Panasonic India, and
RC Meena-Economic Advisor to the Ministry of HRM awarded the
scholarship to Arpan Bajoria of IIT Kanpur, Sumit Kumar Srivastav of
IIT Delhi and Kabir Arora of PEC Chandigarh at a felicitation
ceremony at ABW Towers, LifeScape, Gurgaon. Shinichi Tamura, First
Secretary, Embassy of Japan; Ajay Dua, Advisor to the Panasonic
Global Board graced the occasion with their presence.
The Panasonic Scholarship Program was
established in 1998 in commemoration of the company's 80th
anniversary as a way for the company to express its appreciation to
society. Its aim is to provide scholarship opportunities to privately
financed students from Asian countries who wish to pursue a master's
course in Japan, to offer financial assistance to foster highly
educated experts who can contribute to the development of their
countries in the 21st century, and to promote mutual friendship
between the home countries and Japan. Panasonic will be felicitating
the Indian students for the third consecutive year. In the first year
of its inception, in 2009, the scholarship program sponsored one
engineering student in 2009 and two students in the year 2010 to
pursue their masters course studies in Japan. Speaking on the occasion,
Kawano said,
“It gives me immense pleasure to interact with the upcoming talent
of the country and experience the zest that drives them towards
achievement. The scholarship is our effort to express our
appreciation to the society and contribute in a sustained manner.”
Congratulating the selected students, Asou said, “Panasonic has
taken a step to partner societies across Asian countries to provide
an opportunity to the privileged students to advance their talent and
skill sets by providing them an opportunity to pursue higher studies
in Japan. We believe that talent is our country's future and would
play a vital role in the growth of economy and in the development of
society. We had a motivating response from the students this year. We
are confident of promoting the best talent of this year to go to best
universities of Japan for further studies.”
Panasonic India has shortlisted the
candidates with the help of an exhaustive selection process from IIT
Kanpur, IIT Delhi, University of Pune, NIT Warangal, PEC University
of Technology. There were over 60 applicants who participated in the
program. The students were selected on the basis of their academic
results GPA, GMAT, TOEFL and extracurricular performance. The
short-listed candidates were interviewed by experts from Panasonic
India, Panasonic Scholarship, Professor from IIT Delhi and First
secretary, Embassy of Japan Application forms are accepted and
selected by the overseas offices of Panasonic Scholarship under the
initiatives at the eight applicable countries/region-China,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and
India. The students selected for the scholarship programme will be
entitled for a scholarship package from April 2011. As part of the
program, Panasonic shall support with 150,000 yen per month and
tuition fee for the first year and for the subsequent two years, it
will increase to 180,000 yen per month besides the tuition fee.