India offers scholarships to Malaysians

PETALING JAYA: The government of India is offering three scholarships to students from Malaysia for the academic year 2020-21.

The High Commission of India, in a statement yesterday, said one of the scholarships will be offered under the General Scholarship Scheme (GSS) and two under the Education Exchange Programme (EEP).

The scholarship programmes will be administered by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and will cover tuition fees, living allowance, house rent allowance, contingent grant, thesis and dissertation expenses, and medical benefits.

However, the scholarships will not cover airfare.

The commission said preference will be given to applicants who never studied in India before.

Courses eligible for the scholarships include Engineering, Architecture, Humanities, Liberal Arts, Commerce, Management, Business Administration, Journalism, Hotel Management, Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Animal Husbandry, Science, Law, Dance and Music.

The scholarships would not cover medical-related courses.

The GSS scholarship is said to be one of the most important scholarship schemes offered under the Indian Council for Cultural Relations which is awarded at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels for students from Asian and Latin American countries to pursue research.

Whereas the EEP scholarships will be offered to students intending to pursue undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral courses.

Students intending to apply scholarships have to fill in an application form online at: http://a2ascholarships.iccr.gov.in/

Applications must be submitted before Feb 29.