 has been very generous and gracious in assisting us with sponsorship, primarily used for scholarships. So all the students across all colleges who have received scholarships have received it primarily through this Arisent funding and quite significant, we throw spread across the last few runs has been given to us from there as part of their CSR funding. We are of course looking for more companies to assist us in this process but they have been the four runners that have taken a lot of initiative in supporting us. I am Shanta Kumari from Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering and Technology Pondicherry and she is my colleague Dr. Juno Jasmine. NPTL Arisent Scholarship is very much useful for the underprivileged students because our college consists of mid-cert population of students both from urban area and from rural area and for rural area students even that 500 rupees is a very big thing. So it was a very useful thing when Arisent gave the 50 percent scholarship you would be able to pull the students. So that was a really good thing and this made the NPTL courses available for each kind of students. We have applied for 400 students and we have got the scholarship for at least 350 students. So it was really helpful and around out of 350-340 they wrote their exams and 200 out of them they have cleared and many people they have got the LI ranking also. Actually we couldn't imagine that our students could get such kind of IIT certifications. It won't be possible if the scholarship is not available because for them 1000 or 1250 is a very big amount. But how do they normally then study? Yeah the thing is that our college has well-equipped laboratories and we have a general hierarchical setup SPOC, department coordinators and mentors. So for each mentor we will be having 20 students or 25 students. So the mentor will take care of downloading the videos making it available to the students either through pen drives or in the college systems. So we are spreading those in the social media is helpful for us. We are sending the alerts that the assignments are available the content is available all those things we are saying. So the students who are able to download it at their home who can view it at their home can view it there but the students who don't have computers or who don't have internet connection they will get it from pen drive and they will see it in our college systems. Myself as Kamilas, SPOC of National Engineering College Govalpatti Tamil Nadu and basically our own students belongs to rural background. So we pull the students towards doing NPTEL courses. So if the scholarship has been given, arisen scholarship has been given they have been motivated to write the examination because if they are willing to write two examination they have to pay 2000 rupees. So in this case if they have been availing scholarship they have been paying 1000 rupees and they have been benefited by the NPTEL activities and so it is very very good for our own students belonging to rural background especially rural background and so students are doing good and we heard that we lies within the first top 10 engineering colleges throughout India and so this scholarship really benefited and this is outcome what we have been up to. Yes sir we get feedback from both the faculties and our students faculties have been saying that they have been really motivated by the lectures given by IIT professors and so they have been asking towards when the next course will So even HODs and I have been asking for the same and so they have been really motivated to learn something to learn a lot from IIT professors and the same impact has been available from students side also. If the staffs have been motivated automatically proportionately the students will come because the staffs will enforce the students to come for NPTEL activities and so I think that it will go in the positive side. I am Pawlakumar from VHSN College near by Madurai. So my college is an arts and science college. Our students are from rural background. The scholarship provided by NPTEL has really helped us. Really students were highly motivated and encouraged because of the scholarship. First they hesitated to take up the examination as the fees were high and the scholarship provided by you have really facilitated taking up examination by the students. I really thank NPTEL for doing this. Thank you. Nearly 600 students are appeared from our college. Most of them are got scholarship. I am already planned. I thank to Arizen's people to offer the scholarship to our students. Most of the students are benefited. Most of them are appeared and got certificates. Thank the Arizen's sponsorship and I request to continue the scholarship this year also. Induction of the scholarship has motivated any other students? Yes definitely sir. Some of the students are not get scholarship. The students are interested to appear. If you get scholarship they are really interested. They are really benefited on the benefit point of view and also get the scholarship means students are getting similar to government fund. They are really enjoyed and try to attend the examination after getting the scholarship. In our college our principal told, suppose you are getting the scholarship definitely you are going to write the examination. So don't have send for the particular exam. The students are happy sir. Slowly the number of enrollment is increases. This is the fourth session from followed in our college. Fourth session of appearing NPTEL. Now the tenth increases sir. Initially we are starting from 100. Now it reaches to 600 for the enrollment. But even though they are giving a scholarship that is more incredible to the students as well as particularly for poor students. They are eligible to write this and the SCSC students also they are very happy to write all these things. This scholarship is one kind of motivation to write the exams these exams. Because we can easily approach if the amount is less. So as we are representatives SPOC we are expecting only scholarship so that we can attract students so you can pay less money so we can get the IIT certification all these things. It's one of the factor students are writing more exams. I am Dr. Pradeep Kumar, HOD Mechanical and Darnish Bihari of Engineering Thambaram and I am the SPOC for the NPTEL local chapter. We have chapter for past six months. We are motivating students for this NPTEL courses and we give scholarship also for the students. Because they are most of students are from rural background and fathers are farmers or they are daily coley so it is very helpful for them. So I should thank NPTEL for this scholarship. Last time near about 118 students wrote the examinations. This time we expect more because we are putting in the curriculum itself and we give credit for them also. Last week it was 189 this time we expect near about 400. We received a recent scholarship in good numbers and if possible even for a light and top us they can give 100%. Not only for financially weak students it should be for meritorious also. So that's what if they give 100% scholarship for top us and gold medalist and also a light it will be more comfortable. How many number of students approximately? Actually we got seven numbers in gold and 18 numbers in top us and 195 in a light category. So this is a good sign so if we are able to get 100% scholarship from Harrison we'll be happy. Because we have a very good relation with Harrison in placement and all so if they are able to give 100% for those who academically strong we'll be happy. Okay of these elite people are there any Harrison scholarship holders also? Yeah definitely all are mostly I think more than 95 percentage or Harrison scholarship. They got my 50 percentage scholarship. So more than 700 I think we received this semester more than 700 so 50 percentage. So I want academically strong students if they are able to give 100 percentage we'll be happy. Do you think that the scholarship is going to motivate many more? Yeah definitely getting 100 percentage scholarship is energy to the students right. So they'll be happy definitely this will increase elite numbers and top us in more numbers I am confident on that. Okay do you think are the students studying because of the scholarship or because of NPTEL lectures? Because of NPTEL lectures but this is a energy this is one more record right. We got 100% scholarship from one industry so that may be helpful for their replacement also. I am Dr. R. Parthivan. I am the spoke of Mahanapalli Institute of Technology Mahanapalli. For the last two years we are using NPTEL material in our college. More than 1000 students have enrolled for this NPTEL course. More or less this is very useful for our MOOCs activity and the college credit course transfer and other things. Mainly I will say that the scholarship given by adjacent and the M.H.O.D. is very very useful for our students because our students are coming from very economic background one. So they are giving scholarship and that is very useful for us and for the students also. Basically I will say self-finance engineering course in lot of self-finance engineering course students are coming from poor background only. I can say 10 to 20 percent students will come from a well-versed family or well-settled family. Other students will come from my economically background students they are from middle class or upper middle class. If you are asking 6000 rupees or 10,000 rupees for course that means they will not pay that. But in NPTEL they are giving 1000 rupees or 1250 rupees as an exam registration fee. In that also adjacent is giving a 50 percent scholarship or full waiver for ACS students. So the most economic backward students and the community-based backgrounds will fruitfully use this scholarship for their academic achievements. So I really for midst and myself for once I want to thank the adjacent for this scholarship and other things. Thank you sir thank you. I am Dr. V. Vijay Lakshmi working for the electronics and communication department Pondicherry Engineering College. I am the SPOC of NPTEL local chapter from Pondicherry Engineering College. Like we had around 535 students who had enrolled for the September and the October 2016 courses. Now what was very interesting for the students is the scholarship which they received from Madison. There were a number of students who were of a very poor economic background. So lots of students from Pondicherry are from villages which are going to be surrounding Pondicherry. Like some of them are from Kotakupam side from other areas very backward areas. They even travel by one rupee buses government buses and when a 500 rupees sponsorship is offered to them it is helping out them in a real way. These students are technically very good. They are very technically good and they are capable of getting placement. Some of them have got placement in TCS, CTS and all. So these students get their technical knowledge really enriched by taking these NPTEL certification for courses. And when Madison is giving a scholarship like this it is helping them in a very great of magnitude. I think we applied out of 535 students almost 325. We applied for 325 students and all of them have been given that scholarship. These 325 students many of them were poor students and they were also meritorious students. So we filtered based on their merit, their sincerity in taking the course, submitting their assignments and looking also at their background status. Really we should be thankful to them. They have come out in a great way and I saw the statistics like they have offered this time 3.5 crores as scholarship. And this is going to really help because many of the students, it will be helpful to many of the students to update their technical knowledge because most of them even that 1000 rupees matter you know. So when they are able to get that extra 550 percent of the scholarship they won't hesitate even to apply for three or four courses. So that will be really useful. So hats off to Harrison in that way.