ISMAANA Scholarship Programs
Currently, ISMAANA has two types of ongoing scholarship programs.
1) Merit Scholarships – Eight final year students were awarded ISMAANA merit scholarship earlier this month. ISMAANA started these scholarships in 2015 to recognize the top two students in four earth science branches based on the first three years’ academic performance. As our funds permit, we plan to extend these scholarships to other branches of study. Below is a list of merit scholarship winners with their pictures of receiving the award along with faculty advisors.
| S.No. | Admission No | Name | Discipline | OGPA up to 6thsem. |
| 1 | 2016JE002109 | MR. AMIT CHATTERJEE | B TECH MINING ENGG | 9.6 |
| 2 | 2016JE002385 | MR. SUJAY KUMAR DEY | B TECH MINING ENGG | 9.08 |
| 3 | 2016JE001961 | MR. AMBUJ KUMAR | B TECH PETROLEUM ENGG | 9.32 |
| 4 | 2016JE002218 | MR. RITESH PARASHAR | B TECH PETROLEUM ENGG | 9.1 |
| 5 | 2016JE002121 | MS AKANKSHA PRAHARAJ | INTEGRATED MSc TECH APPLIED GEOLOGY | 9.33 |
| 6 | 2016JE002062 | MR AMRIT VYAS | INTEGRATED MSc TECH APPLIED GEOLOGY | 8.7 |
| 7 | 2016JE002079 | MR. DIVAKAR VASHISTH | INTEGRATED M TECH APPLIED GEOPHYSICS | 9.16 |
| 8 | 2016JE002372 | MR. ANUPAM PATEL | INTEGRATED M TECH APPLIED GEOPHYSICS | 8.49 |
2) Merit cum means scholarships – These scholarships started in 2017 and currently, ISMAANA has alumni commitment for 52 such scholarships that are based on family income and academic performance. The amount of these scholarships range from $1000/year to $1370/year. These scholarships are intended to mainly cover student expenses related to room, board, and transportation. During the 2018-19 academic year, 38 such scholarships were awarded to undergraduate students. For the current academic year of 2019-20, 29 students carry over their scholarships from last year while 9 final year students graduated. IIT (ISM) has advertised for applications for the remaining 23 scholarships.
Scholarship donors with number of committed scholarships in parenthesis are Naresh Vashisht (20), Avinash Ahuja (10), Suresh Chugh (4), Mohinder Gulati (1), Pramod Thakur (1), Jatinder Tuli (1) Dipak Sarkar (1), Zoeb Mogri (1), Shishir Agrawal (1), Yugal Gupta (4), Mahendra Verma (2), Atul Arya (1), Sriram Muralidharan (1), and Raj Prasad (1). During 2019 we received sponsorships for 3 more scholarships, 2 from Bijay Banthia (61’PE) and one from Rana Roy (94’PE).
As news of these scholarships spread more alumni are coming forward to offer these scholarships to needy meritorious students. If you need more information about these scholarships, please call Dipak Sarkar at 714 826-2810 or write to dksarkar@aol.com.