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Organization : Savitribai Phule Pune University
Scholarship Name : D. K. Bhave Scholarship
Applicable For : Engineering Graduates For Master’s Studies in USA/Canada/Germany/England
Applicable States : All India

Website : http://unipune.ac.in/dkbhave/

D. K. Bhave Scholarship:

D. K. Bhave Damodar Krishna Bhave was born in 1889 in Miraj, Maharashtra, in a financially poor family. He went to Miraj High School (stood first in his matric class), Fergusson College, and then the Engineering College in Pune (Civil Engineering 1910).

Update : Savitribai Phule Pune University D.K. Bhave Scholarship 2019 : www.scholarships.net.in/36369.html

He started a job, but he wanted to pursue higher education. After taking loans (Hindu Education Fund and others) supplemented by his own savings, he went to Edinburgh, UK, and received his Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering with Special Distinction.

While working there as an Assistant Engineer for 18 months, he studied at night at the Edinburgh University and earned his MA in Logic and Mathematics. He returned to India, repaid his loans, and held several high level jobs including the Municipal Commissioner of Indore. Education was his passion and he was a supporter of Deccan Education Society and the University of Pune. In those days (1940s) he insisted on educating women and men equally and supported his daughter to earn her MA at Columbia University in USA.

He started a scholarship at University of Pune in 1950 to aid deserving students going abroad (England, USA and Germany) for graduate degrees in Engineering. He had promised to expand the scholarship to Rs.100,000 to Wrangler Paranjape (the VC at that time), but he passed away before he could do so in 1956. His daughter and sons gave the additional amount in shares he had promised from his estate to the University of Pune.

A donor’s representative recently proposed to the University of Pune to restructure the D. K. Bhave Scholarship to fit today’s environment and the Management Council of the University approved the proposal in October 2008. The D. K. Bhave Scholarship for Master’s Degree in Engineering and Technology in USA/Canada/Germany/England

Online applications are invited for the D. K. Bhave scholarship from engineering graduates who have secured “Confirmed Admission” for Master’s Degree in Engineering and Technology in any foreign accredited university from USA/Canada/Germany/England.

Eligibility and Conditions:
** The Candidate should be Graduate from Engineering Faculty / Studying in the last year (B.E./B.Tech) (Any Branch) of University of Pune from the NBA (National Board of Accreditation) accredited institutes within PMC and PCMC area. (PleaseClick here for the list of colleges)

** Candidate should have secured “Confirmed Admission” on his/her own merit for Master’s Degree in Engineering and Technology in any foreign accredited university from USA/Canada/Germany/England.

** The purpose is to encourage students to return to India after their Masters Degree and help India to compete in the global economy.

** For the D. K. Bhave scholarship, the students who are already in a foreign country attending a Masters Degree program in Engineering are not eligible.

** The expected amount of Scholarship will be around Rs. 5 lacs.

The purpose is to encourage students to return to India after their Masters Degree and help India compete in the global economy.