MUMBAI: An alumnus of the distinguished London Business School, Kumar Mangalam Birla has created a 15 million pound endowed scholarship program to honor his late grandfather, and veteran industrialist BK Birla’s legacy Aditya Birla Group announced on Thursday.
The scholarship program is the biggest endowed scholarship presented to a European enterprise college. An endowed scholarship distinguishes itself from different one-time donations. The cash given to the educational organization is invested and withdrawn with the handiest interest earned used to fund scholarships. The program will assist the education of ten complete-time MBA candidates of the B-faculty each 12 months in perpetuity, including 5 Indian students and five college students from the relaxation of the arena. Performers in the top 5% ranking in a class could be eligible for the scholarship to apply to college students starting their stint in the school from the fall of this year.
The Aditya BirlaNSE -0. Eighty % of the group chairman said the ‘BK Scholars Programme’ “contemplated his grandfather’s generosity of spirit and commitment to supporting the ongoing growth of rising commercial enterprise leaders.” “I am extremely proud to honor my grandfather’s legacy and create something enduring through this landmark global pupils program at LBS,” Birla stated in a press observation. “Through this program, we appear to construct a diverse and colorful community of subsequent generation leaders dedicated to the ideals of integrity, dedication, and carrier to humanity. The very values epitomized via my grandfather,” he said.
Aged ninety-eight, Basant Kumar Birla, chairman of Century Textiles and Industries, handed away on July three. During his lifetime, he had also been associated with many other instructional trusts and institutions along with the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, the BK Birla Centre of Education in Pune, and the Birla Institute of Management Technology in Delhi with over 50,000 college students annually analyzing in establishments established by him. “It is a first-rate present to honor BK. Birla’s memory with this prestigious scholars program,” François Ortalo-Magné, dean of LBS, stated.
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