citiesUpdated: Jan 23, 2020 21:17 ISTPUNE The Hindustan Times Scholarship programme was held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hall in Pune on Thursday. The scholarship programme, in its third edition since the launch of HT Pune in 2017, saw 50 winners from Clases 5 to 9, representing various schools from across the city. The awards wew handed out for the Hindustan Times Scholarship Programme 2019, which received a total of 33,390 applications from from 106 schools. Rohit Pokhriyal, cluster head Pune and senior vice-president retail branch banking of HDFC Bank, and Abhay Vaidya, resident editor, Hindustan Times, Pune were the other guests present at the event. “The HT scholarship programme is the only scholarship programme of its kind in Pune and every year the number of applicants has been increasing.

Source: Hindustan Times January 23, 2020 15:45 UTC