Jammu, Feb 24: Director General of Police, Dr. S.P Vaid has granted scholarship of Rs. 2.24 Lakh in favour of 29 wards of police martyrs.
Scholarship of rupees twenty thousand eight hundred has also been granted for five wards of serving police personnel, who secured seventy per cent and above marks in the Post graduation/ graduation courses.
Among the 29 wards of the personnel, who laid their lives in different militancy related incidents, eleven wards are reading in Graduation/ post graduation and the remaining eighteen are in primary and secondary classes. The scholarships have been sanctioned for the academic year 2016-17& 2017-18 out of Central Police Education Fund.
The wards of serving personnel granted scholarship out of Central Police Welfare Fund, have completed their post graduation, graduation courses during the year 2016-17.
(KNB)
