AADLIS WELFARE SCHOLARSHIP FUND

RULES FOR THE AWARD OF AADLIS STUDENT's WELFARE SCHOLARSHIP

Department means 'Department of Library & Information Science, University of Kerala'and Association mean 'Alumni Association of the Department of Library & Information Science, University of Kerala'.

1. The Fund may be called the "AADLIS STUDENT WELFARE SCHOLARSHIP FUND"
2. The corpus fund is presently fixed as Rs.25000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) only, which may be increased from time to time as per the decision of the Executive Committee of AADLIS.
3. The corpus amount may be deposited as Fixed Deposit for a period which may fetch the maximum rate in a Nationalized / Co-operative Bank as the Executive Committee of the AADLIS decides, from the total fund generated by the Association by way of membership fee, admission fee, donation etc.
4. An amount not exceeding the annual interest receivable from the corpus fund (rounded off to the nearest lower 100 ) may be annually given as welfare scholarship to one student of the MLISc (Integrated ) course of the Department. The frequency of the scholarship can be increased as the scholarship fund sufficiently grows in future.
5. The deserving student may be selected for welfare scholarship from among the students who are admitted to the first semester of the MLISc (Integrated) course and who is economically poor and needs assistance for successfully completing the course. Necessary documents such as income certificate may be collected from the student for verifying the economic background.
6. The student so selected should have a consistently good academic record from SSLC/ Std X onwards as the case may be and should have scored good marks in the Entrance Examination of the course also.
7. Application may be called for in the prescribed form by the Head of the Department for the award of the welfare scholarship sufficiently in advance to its distribution.
8. The student selected for this welfare scholarship should not be the recipient of any other scholarship / stipend. 9. Sponsored candidates are not eligible for the welfare scholarship.
10. Before the distribution of the scholarship an undertaking may be obtained from the student that he will continue the study and complete the course.
11. If the student discontinues his / her study he / she will have to refund the amount received as scholarship.
12. During the course of study if any disciplinary proceeding is initiated against the recipient of the scholarship and if he / she is punished , then the amount received as scholarship will have to be refunded by the student.
13. The selection of the student may be made by a selection committee constituted for this purpose by the executive Committee.
14. The decision of the President of AADLIS i.e. the Head of the Department will be final if any dispute arises on the selection of the student for scholarship.
15. Any deletion / addition to the Rules may be made by the Executive Committee if it becomes necessary.