Making education accessible for all is always a top priority for the nation and its policy makers. Given the social intricacies of our country, it is a humungous task to ensure that everyone is getting a fair share of opportunity to grow and prosper in life.

Time and again schemes are implemented for different segments of population especially for the schedule castes, schedule tribes and physically challenged. Many such schemes where both the government and private institutions offer scholarships and financial assistance to bright (but needy) students are currently underway.

The idea behind providing scholarships to students who are meritorious and belong to the above mentioned segment of population is that they continue their education irrespective of the barriers created by their social and physical constraints and eventually be at par in life with the rest of the population.

The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) recently announced that it will be offering 35 scholarships to engineering students belonging to schedule castes/ schedule tribes and the physically challenged category.

The criterion is that the student belonging to this segment must be pursuing a full-time engineering course from a government-recognized institution. He/ she must be in the third session in year 2010-2011 after meritoriously clearing their first two years. It must be noted that this scholarship is only available for select streams of engineering.