DGP grants meritorious scholarship for 130 wards of cops

STATE TIMES NEWS

JAMMU: Continuing with its endeavour to boost the morale and assist the wards of serving police personnel, Director General of Police (DGP), Dilbag Singh sanctioned meritorious scholarship of Rs 4.9 lakh in favour of 94 wards of serving police personnel, who secured 80% and above marks in the Annual Examination of class 10th during the academic session of 2019-20.
Rs 6000 each have been sanctioned in favour of 53 wards of serving police personnel who secured above 90% marks and Rs 4000 each in favour of 43 wards of serving police personnel who secured above 80% marks in class 10th examination during the Academic session of 2019-20.
Similarly scholarship of Rs 5000 each have been sanctioned in favour of 36 wards of deceased police personnel who died while in service due to natural/ accidental death.
The wards who have been awarded with scholarships are studying in different classes of primary, middle, secondary & higher secondary.
DGP also sanctioned special reward of Rs 10,000 each with Commendation Certificate Class-1 in favour of eight wards namely Shujaut Farooq, Mir Mudasir Gull, Mehak Nabi, Asmat Bano, Chetan Anand, Chahat, Farhan Manzoor and Kashif Choudhary of serving police personnel for qualifying Combined Competitive Examination /National Eligibility Entrance Test. The amount has been sanctioned out of Central Police Welfare Fund.