Deen Dayal Sparsh Yojana: The Postal Department will give scholarships every month to the meritorious students of classes 6 to 9 with the aim of increasing interest in postage stamps and collecting them.
Deen Dayal Sparsh Yojana has been started by the Postal Department.
Under the scheme, applications have been sought for scholarships from students of classes 6 to 9.
Students can get the form online through a QR code or offline from the Postal Department.
Students will have to submit the form to the Postal Department itself.
Ten meritorious students will be selected from each class through a quiz competition.
In the financial year 2024-25, students will be given a scholarship of Rs 500-500 per month.
Philately postage stamp account will also be opened
Philately postage stamp accounts of students will also be opened. Rs. 200 will be deposited in this account.
Under the scheme, students will get a scholarship for one year.
Apart from this, whenever a new postage stamp is issued, that postage stamp will be sent to the students through post. Its purpose is to make students aware of postage stamps and encourage them to collect postage stamps.
The money for each postage stamp will keep getting deducted from the philately postage stamp account. The department will not take the postage cost of sending the stamps. Till the money in the philately account does not end, the department will keep sending postage stamps.
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The purpose of this scheme of the postal department is to make students aware of the postal department, its scheme, and postage stamps and encourage them to collect postage stamps.