Vidyashree & Vidya Bhusan Awards 2008 Enrolment Guidelines

Enrolment for Vidyashree & Vidya Bhusan Awards 2008-09 has already started. The SSC (Class-X) School Toppers of academic year 2007-08 can enrol for Vidyashree Awards & HSC (Class-XII) School toppers of academic year 2007-08 can enroll for Vidya Bhusan Awards, by visiting our website http://www.amul.com/ & following the links provided on the homepage.

The Awards consists of:
· A trophy
· A cash award of Rs. 1000/-
· A certificate of excellence
· The list/photographs of winners would also be updated on Amul’s website http://www.amul.com/
· The winner would also be featured in India’s leading newspaper and would get national recognition.

For those who are interested, the guidelines for filling up the on-line application form are mentioned as following;

1. Log on to http://www.amul.in/award/lists/vidyashree.php for “Amul Vidyashree Awards (10th) & on http://www.amul.in/award/lists/vidyabhushan.php for “Amul Vidyabhushan Awards (12th).

2. Fill in all the details. Please note that all the fields are mandatory.

3. The School names that we have recognized in past 2 years are already uploaded and are available in the drop down menu, after selecting the district and town.
In case you do not find your school details, we would request you to please enter the relevant details after selecting “Other” in the School Name field.

4. Please upload a passport size photograph (jpeg image file not more than 22kb in size) of the student, by selecting the upload photo button at the end of online entry form. Please name the image file by the first name of the student.

5. After submitting the entry online, please send the filled form along with the copy of the mark-sheet and a Passport size colour photo of the candidate (front-facing without any signature/stamp on the face) to the GCMMF Branch Office address displayed, after completing on-line enrolment.

Please note the Unique Registration No. generated after completion of the on-line entry and communicated to the School Principal & the student vide e-mail. Please refer/mention the unique registration id for any future communication.

The last date of enrolment is 30th Septemember 2008 and the awards shall be distributed in the respective schools before 31st Decemeber 2008, by coordinating with the school authorities.

Amul Vidyashree Awards on Orissa State Day Celebration by Chief Minister Orissa

On 1st April 2008, Orissa State Day Celebration, the Chief Minister of the Orissa state, Hon’ble Sri Naveen Pattanaik, presented the Amul Vidyashree Award to the awardees during the function organised under the aegis of State level UTKAL DIVASA SAMAROH – 2008 held at Jawahar Vidyapitha, PIPILI, Orissa in the presence of 70,000 people.

The Chief Minister expressed his pleasure and appreciated that “AMUL” (GCMMF Ltd.) is encouraging meritorious and outstanding academic performance in State / Central Board examinations through Amul Vidyashree Awards. He also expressed that this award for the young talents by “AMUL” shall definitely boost the morale of the students.

On this occasion, Amul Vidyashree Award was presented to Ms. AANCHAL TRIPATHY of Pipili High School,Pipili, Ms. RIJWANA PARWEEN, of Jawahar Vidyapitha, Pipili and Ms. JAYASHREE MOHAPATRA of Teisipur High School, Teisipur.

Sri Prasanna Kumar Patasahani, Member of Parliament (Khurda), Sri Braja Kishore Tripathy, Member of Parliament ( Puri) & Sri Pradeep Kumar Maharathy, M.L.A. (Pipili) also graced the occasion and appreciated the efforts of the students.

The ceremony was covered by both print and electronic media inclusing Doordarshan, ETV-Oriya and OTV news channels.

Governor Shri Rameswar Thakur giving away Vidyashree Awards to Merit Rankers in Orissa

“AMUL VIDYASREE AWARD “ was given by His excellency Governor Sri Rameswar Thakur to Miss Sradhanjali Mishra of Govt. Girls’ High Puri and Shri Alok Nanda of Viswambhar Vidyapith, Puri.



Governor Shri Rameswar Thakur was chief guest in the function in state level Inter School Talent search programme-2006 held at municipal conference hall, Puri on 11th November 2006, organized by a voluntary orgnisation named ‘Nirman’.

In his speech he mentioned that the appreciation and encouragement of the budding talents would lead to development of society as well as of the county.

Amul Vidyashree & Amul Vidya Bhushan Awards

The foundation of every state is the sound education of its youth and hence is the most basic constituent for a developing nation like India. Towards this, we at Amul have always contributed our best towards ensuring development and encouraging the spirit of enlightenment among today’s youth.

As a continuation towards this endeavour, Amul has instituted Vidyashree Award to recognize the academic excellence of the class 10 school topper in the examination in each State/Central Board enrolled school every year.

The objective of the awards is to recognize the efforts of the academic merit toppers and build equity for Amul among the young India. We are proud to constitute this award which is the first of its kind in India and operate Pan-India in such a large scale.

By winning this award, not only the student gets recognized, but it also help the schools to enhance their image as an academy that imparts quality education, putting it at par with other premier institutions in India.

Both “Amul Vidyashree” & “Amul Vidyabhushan” Awards consists of:

· A specially designed Trophy,
· A Certificate of excellence signed by MD, GCMMF and
· A Cash Award of Rs.1000/-
· Listed along with photograph on our website www.amul.com
· Feature in press advertisement in a leading national newspaper

The inception of this award took place in the year 2004-05, whereby in the first year we honoured the award to students of 500 schools in South India, East India and Gujarat. In the second year (2005-06) we further acknowledged 2267 students across schools in India. For the academic year 2006-07, we have till date recognized the academic excellence of around 3077 for Vidyashree Award across India.

Moving ahead, in 2006-07 we have instituted the “Amul Vidyabhushan Award” to recognize the toppers of 12th Standard examinations. In the first of year of inception, we have awarded students 2073 students across India.

For the academic year 2007-08, we plan to recognize the efforts of 10,000 Class X & Class XII merit rankers (5000 students each for Vidyashree and Vidyabhushan Awards). We further intend to increase the award number every year so that maximum students are recognized for their academic excellence through our Awards.

All this is towards Amul’s vision to see educated, talented and strong youth in future India and hence work our best towards nation building.