Acharya Prafulla Chandra College (APCC) Scholarship Details

Roumik Roy

Stipends & Free Studentship :

The college grants Free Studentship/Half-free Studentship to poor but meritorious students. Applications for Free Studentship must be addressed to the Principal in the prescribed form before a notified date. Boys and girls who have secured at least 50% and 45% marks respectively in the last qualifying examination are eligible to put in their application. At least 15% of the total students of the college are granted concession. Students from Scheduled Castes and Tribes as well as from Other Backward Classes and Minority Communities are entitled to special stipends. For this they have to properly fill in prescribed forms and send them through the Principal to concerned government officials authorized to release these grants.

But here is a word of caution. Students enjoying scholarships, stipends, Full-free /Half-free studentship may find their privileges withdrawn (i) if they show unsatisfactory academic progress or are guilty of misconduct; (ii) if they remain absent from college on grounds other than illness, and (iii) if they get involved in something that is likely to tarnish the name of the college, or misbehave with teachers or fellow students.

From 2014, the Students’ Union also has introduced a Merit Scholarship Scheme for the meritorions but poor students. The highest marks securing students of second year and third year classes of both B.A. and B.Sc. streams will get a scholarship equivalent to six months’ college fees.