Scholarship for new joiners in Model Engineering College

XMEC Social Assist (XSA), the social assistance wing of Govt.Model Engineering College Alumni are offering scholarship worth Rs 1,00,000(25,000 every year) per student for upto 3 students fulfilling the criteria below

Criteria 

1. The scholarship shall be available only to students joining Govt. Model Engineering College, Kochi.
2. Candidates should have a Kerala Entrance rank(KEAM 2014) numerically equal or less than 500.
3. Candidates already getting other scholarships are not eligible.

Process:
Eligible students are requested to fill in the form below.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HpP3DyoSTcRV3wM94kbcr_vD3IQINPO4X1DbrOV5914/viewform

Deadline for application is 3pm 28th June 2013.

A provisional list of upto 3 selected candidates and 3 wait listed candidates would be published on Govt.Model Engineering College website (www.mec.ac.in) at 10am 29th June 2013.

Selection of candidates would be done by XSA. For any queries mail xmec-social-assist@googlegroups.com

XSA Scholarship Program

XMEC Scholarship 2012

Dear Friends


Greetings from the XSA team. It is the time of the year for the alumni to come together to raise funds for the scholarships for current year. Last year, we gave scholarship of Rs. 20,000/- each to eleven students. This year, we wish to extend the scholarship to 5 more students from the current 3rd semester students. Three of the erstwhile scholarship holders have passed out last year and hence in total, we would be giving 13 scholarships this year. This would require a sum of at least Rs 2,60,000/- to be raised. I am sure given the alumni strength and the positions many of us are at; this can be raised very easily



To repeat, the salient points on the scholarship are:


- The students who were offered scholarship last year would continue to get the same in the current year


- The new students would be selected among the 2nd year 


- The quantum of the scholarship is Rs 20,000/- per student


- The scholarship would be given annually till completion of course


- The guidelines for student selection would be determined between XSA and the college



We request you to send your contribution to the following account: 


Account No.: 67101191210 (current account)


Name of Account: XMEC SOCIAL ASSIST


Bank:              State Bank of Travancore 


Branch:            Cochin University Campus Branch


IFSC No.: SBTR0000235



Please inform Nirmal U (Treasurer) and me on the funds transferred to the account. Our contact details are: 


Nirmal U: nirmal.unnikrishnan@wipro.com   
+1-26752-17166

George C Kuriakose: georgeckuriakose@gmail.com  +91-97408-24900



It would be great if any of you individually / as a group / as a batch would want to sponsor full or partial scholarships. If you are interested, please drop me a mail (george.c.kuriakose@gmail.com) and we can take it forward. Last year, we had the 1993, 1994 and 2009 batches sponsoring single scholarship each. We also had a few individuals and groups donating full scholarship each. Would like to see at least another 5 batches to come forward to sponsor single scholarships. So we would like to call upon the batches of at least 1995 – 1999 batches to come forward this year

You could also contacts Sanish and Nitin if you need further details

Sanish N S: ns.sanish@gmail.com +91-98800-42310

Nitin J Chittilappilly: chittsnitin@gmail.com +91-95380-03624

Looking forward to your support in this great step forward from XMEC


Regards


for XMEC Social Assist Team


George C Kuriakose


EE 90 - 94

PS: You could also transfer through paypal to my account georgeckuriakose@gmail.com. Please copy Nirmal on all paypal transfers

XSA: Fund Raising for Scholarshi​p for Students of MEC

Dear Friends
A new semester begins in July and time for the alumni to come together to raise funds for the scholarships for current year. Last year, we gave scholarship of Rs. 20,000/- each to six students from the then 3rd and 5th semesters. This year, we wish to extend the scholarship to 5 more students from the current 3rd Sem students. So in total, we would be giving 11 scholarships. This would require a sum of at least Rs 2,20,000/- to be raised. I am sure given the alumni strength and the positions many of us are at, this can be raised very easily

To repeat, the salient points on the scholarship are:
- The students who were offered scholarship last year would continue to get the same in the current year
- The new students would be selected among the 2nd year
- The quantum of the scholarship is Rs 20,000/- per student
- The scholarship would be given annually till completion of course
- The guidelines for student selection would be determined between XSA and the college

We request you to send your contribution to the following account:
Account No.:       67101191210 (current account)
Name of Account:   XMEC SOCIAL ASSIST
Bank:              State Bank of Travancore
Branch:            Cochin University Campus Branch
IFSC No.:          SBTR0000235

Please keep Nirmal U (Treasurer) and Jobil Louis on the funds transferred to the account. Their contact details are:
Nirmal U: nirmal.unnikrishnan@wipro.com   +91-94465-75475
Jobil Louis: jobillouisjoseph@gmail.com  +91-99953-36658

It would be great if any of you individually / as a group / as a batch would want to sponsor full or partial scholarships. If you are interested, please drop me a mail (george.c.kuriakose@sc.com) and we can take it forward.
Looking forward to your support in this great step forward from XMEC
Regards
for XMEC Social Assist Team
George C Kuriakose
EE 90 - 94

Scholarships handed over to Students of MEC

Dear Friends

Yesterday, our esteemed Principal, Dr P Sureshkumar handed over the XMEC Alumni Scholarship to 6 students in the presence of staff and students. Nirmal Unnikrishnan from XSA was also present during the function

We had set a target of raising Rs 1 Lac to provide scholarships to 5 students during the current year. We had been able to raise an amount of almost Rs 2 Lacs. Hence we were able to add one more student as a beneficiary keeping the balance for coming years. Thanks to all the donors

The students were selected based on a combination of merit and means. I would like to thank Minimol B (staff and also alumni of 1993 batch) along with other staff in helping us through the selection process.

Once again, I thank all of you in participating and making this endeavor a success. We look forward to your help, guidance and contributions for all XSA activities

Regards

George C Kuriakose

President - XSA

EE 90-94

FW: Scholarship Fund for Students of MEC from XSA - Thu Jun 24, 2010

That's great news and many thanks and kudos to the XMEC Social Assist Team for pulling this off.

Rajan Girish Mohan

CE 90

FW: Scholarship Fund for Students of MEC from XSA - Thu Jun 24, 2010

Dear Friends

Once again, it gives us an immense pleasure to share the good news of reaching our objective of raising Rs 1 Lac to provide scholarship for 5 students in MEC for the current academic year.

The 1993 batch and XMEC Singapore have sponsored one student each and have committed to take this forward every year. Hence from third year, three students each would be sponsored by them. There have also been a few individual sponsorship for the full fees of one student each. We hope that they would be able to continue the effort in the coming years also. There have also been numerous donations from people across the batches

Once again, on behalf of XSA I would thank everyone who has come forward to make this endeavor a success.

Our next objectives on the scholarship scheme are:

-          We are discussing with principle with regards to student selection. We plan to complete this before the next semester begins

-          Work towards building a corpus for the scholarships in the coming years. The next year target would be to give scholarship to 10 students.

Hence, your donations & suggestions for the scholarship program is still welcome (I am sure some of you might have just lost the previous mail in midst of the busy day-to-day activities).

Request you to forward this message to your respective batch yahoogroups

Regards

XMEC Social Assist Team

George C. Kuriakose      Batch of 1994
Rajesh M V.                              Batch of 1994
Nirmal U.                                   Batch of 2003
Roshni Firoz                   Batch of 2003
Shabana M.                               Batch of 2003
Sanish N.S.                               Batch of 2003
Pramod Kumar P G        Batch of 2002
Ashley Jose                    Batch of 2002

Scholorship Fund @MEC-An appeal to all MECians - Tue May 18, 2010

Dear friends and students,

As everybody has come to know about by this time, XMEC Social Assist (XSA) has benn registered under charitable society acts and we have started some meaningful initiatives with it. The first and the current project is the much appreciated scholorship fund for the needy students. I do remeber with thanks, the overwhelming response on the matter of a student that I have presented before the alumni. We could finally help her to bare the fees and it was a great contribution.

I think the response on the current and some more big budget proposal for our alumni scholorship program should come with some more enthusiasm. We are very much thankful to the fact that many group and individual offers are in line. I request each and every one of you to have a some more better response and contributions either as individuls/year wise/class wise with voluntary leadership from some of you.

When I have visited many of the prestigious institutes, it was really amazing to notice the contribution of alumni in many of the areas of development of the institute. Ofcourse, it can be possible with appropriate administrative support too.

The scholrship program is one among the best project that we could take up. Our alumni, fortunately is one among the strong in all aspects. They are doing a wonderful contribution in the placement activities. The scholorship is also a requirement in fact. Being here I can tell you that there are really needy and exellant guys, require a loving helping hand from us, which we can do with minimum contributions from an individual.

I have prepared the formalities of opening a joint acount with the college and XSA exclussively for this. It is the time for us to raise the amount now. It is my dream that we could do it before I join College of Engineering Cherthala due to the transfer I got just now. (As I will be operating from Cochin only, it will not affect the duties I could do for XSA here). But being here make some sense, I think.

SO MY VERY DEAR ALUMNI MEMBERS, KINDLY CONTRIBUTE TO MATERIALIZE OU DREAM OF AN ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP @ MEC.

The details of the acount is:

Account No.: 67101191210 (current account)
Name of Account: XMEC SOCIAL ASSIST
Bank: State Bank of Travancore
Branch: Cochin University Campus Branch
IFSC No.: SBTR0000235

Whenever you contribute, pl let us know it if you don't mind disclosing the identity.

Thanks and regards,

rajesh
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EE (1990-94)/37; Mob: 09447464687
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M.V Rajesh                               |  Hon. Secretary
Asst. Professor in Electronics     |  IETE Kochi Local Centre
Govt. Model Engineering College |
Thrikkakara (PO), Cochin-21       |
Kerala, India.                             |
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FW: Scholarship Fund for Students of MEC from XSA - An update - Thu Apr 29, 2010

Hi All

Thanks for the words of support and commitments for donations from many of you. We are happy to say that we have received commitments for 3 scholarships already. This means that we have crossed the 50% mark for this year’s scholarship.

We have started discussion with Principal on the process for selecting the students. The major guidelines on student selection would be:

-          Family income of the student

-          Academics of the student

-          For the current year, we would select 5 students across 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th year students. From next year, it would be from the 2^nd year students

We would like to call upon each one of you to take the small effort to help out the current students of your alma mater. Please contribute to this effort generously. Let us make this the biggest project from the alumni to the college

Good news for people in USA

Pramodkumar PG (batch of 2002 and XSA council member) is in USA. He has volunteered to take in the collection in USA. So you could transfer funds to him in USA and he in turn would transfer it to the XSA account in India. He can be contacted at +1-408 912 6036 or via email: pg.pramod@..., pramodpg@...

Please feel free to contact any one of us for further information on this

Regards

XMEC Social Assist Team

George C. Kuriakose                  Batch of 1994
Rajesh M V.                              Batch of 1994
Pramod Kumar P G                    Batch of 2002
Ashley Jose                              Batch of 2002

Nirmal U.                                   Batch of 2003
Roshni Firoz                              Batch of 2003
Shabana M.                               Batch of 2003
Sanish N.S.                               Batch of 2003

Scholarship Fund for Students of MEC from XSA - Sat Apr 17, 2010

Dear Friends

It is with immense pleasure that we would like to share the happy news that XMEC Social Assist now has a bank account of its own. You would already have known that XMEC Social Assist is a registered society. Given that the council members were spread out across the globe, it took us some time to have the account opened. This gives us a better official status among the alumni and external organizations (college, etc)

It also gives us the opportunity to initiate the Scholarship fund for the students of the college. We are working with Principle and staff to roll this out from the next academic year (2010 – 11). The plan is to start with scholarship for 5 students with an amount of Rs 20,000/- each. Towards this a quantum of Rs 1,00,000/- would be required during the year.

Creating a scholarship fund for the students of our alumni has been a dream of many of us out there in the corporate world. Hence let us take this initiative as the starting point for the road ahead. Some salient points on the scholarship for the current year:

-         The students would be selected among the ones from 2^nd to 4^th year (so as not to lose out on any deserving student).

-         The quantum of the scholarship is Rs 20,000/- per student

-         The scholarship would be given annually till completion of course

-         Any excess funds received would be put into fixed deposit for next year’s scholarship

-         The guidelines for student selection would be determined between XSA and the college

-         From next year, students of year 2 would be selected for the scholarship

It would be great if any of you individually / as a group / as a batch would want to sponsor full or partial scholarships. If you are interested, please drop me a mail (george.c.kuriakose@...) and we can take it forward

We request you to send your contribution to the following account:

Account No.:                67101191210 (current account)

Name of Account:        XMEC SOCIAL ASSIST

Bank:                           State Bank of Travancore

Branch:                         Cochin University Campus Branch

IFSC No.:                    SBTR0000235

Please make use of this opportunity to be a member of XMEC Social Assist also. The membership fees for XSA have been decided as below:

• Life Membership: Rs 5,000/-
• Annual Membership: Rs 500/-

Please find attached the membership form for you to fill and send across. Please send the forms to Rajesh MV (Secretary) at mvrajeshihrd@.... Please keep Nirmal U (Treasurer) on the funds transferred to the account. His email id and phone numbers are (nirmal.unnikrishnan@... ) and +91-94465 75475

Looking forward to your support in this great step forward from XMEC

Regards

XMEC Social Assist Team

George C. Kuriakose                  Batch of 1994
Rajesh M V.                              Batch of 1994
Nirmal U.                                   Batch of 2003
Roshni Firoz                              Batch of 2003
Shabana M.                               Batch of 2003
Sanish N.S.                               Batch of 2003
Pramod Kumar P G                    Batch of 2002
Ashley Jose                              Batch of 2002

Call for Help - Financial help needed for MEC student - Thu Nov 22, 2007

Hi all,

I am writing this mail on behalf of Rajesh Sir.

One of the students in our college, Rajesh Kumar of CS 3rd Sem.
hailing from Bihar, has been asked to vacate from the college hostel
since his arrears have come close to 10K. His financial condition is
really bad.

Most of you might remember that XSA with the help of many XMECians,
have helped this student earlier in the same regard. According to
Rajesh sir, an immediate contribution of around 5k will be of great
help to him. We have decided to take this amount from the existing XSA
fund.

XSA is in the process of formulating a Scholarship Fund for students
like Rajesh Kumar to help them complete their studies @MEC.

It would be nice if the community could help him. I request you to
look into this matter and help him out by contributing to the below
account.

Account Details
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Name : Ashley Jose
Account Number: 004001502155
MICR number : 500229003
Bank : ICICI
Type of Account : Savings
Branch : Madhapur
Nearest city : Hyderabad
Address : Ashley Jose
Elappuparackal
Kunnumbhagam
Kanjirapally,Kottayam - 686507, Kerala

Regards,
Sanish N S
CS 99 - 03

Scholarship and Social Assist Fund - Fri Feb 23, 2007

Dear Friends

It has been over a month since I visited the college and hence a bit delayed on updating all on the meeting with teachers there

Pramod (98-02) batch and I had met few of the teachers including Rajesh MV, Krishnadas sir and Johnson sir. This meeting was in continuation of the efforts done by Rajesh and XSA for the funds for a student in the college

It was decided that we need to make this more functional, systematic and an ongoing venture. The meeting was really fruitful as we noticed a very positive approach on behalf of the college. We hope that the same would continue even though there have been some changes in the college.

It was suggested that the staff would be able to set up a help desk for the students. This would be to help the students in all aspects (educational, monetary, etc). They would also be able to select the students for the scholarship and other financial help.

In the last few years, many of us have tried to set up a scholarship fund and worked partially towards the same without reaching the end point. This is a good time to restart those initiatives and make the dream a reality.

Hence calling for volunteers to work on the scholarship scheme. Will need a commitment of a few hours a week in the initial period.

The initial work involved would be:

- Decide on the structure of the scholarship fund.

- Decide on the selection criteria for the right student

- Drive the fund-raising for the same.

- Expand the social commitment work of XSA

Hence, if you are interested in volunteering, please send a mail to me (george.c.kuriakose@...) or Pramod (pg.pramodkumar@...)

Currently the XSA team (Pramod, Ashley, Shabana, Roshni), Vyas, Rajesh and me have been involved in the discussions.

Also would need help from a Chartered Accountant or lawyer to understand the process of setting up a charitable society / Trust. Hence if any of your near relatives is a CA / lawyer, it would be great if we could take their help on the same

We also discussed on other initiatives such as to allow alumni to participate in the arts festival, take sessions to the students, have staff and students participate in the alumni activities. Hopefully all these would become reality in the near future.

Looking forward to the day when no person is denied admission to MEC for lack of funds. Together we will be able to achieve it.

Regards,

George C Kuriakose

EE 90 - 94

Another case of MECian who needs finanacial help - Thu Jan 18, 2007

Dear Xmecians,
We wanted to bring to your notice the case of an MECian who is in urgent need of financial help.This case has been referred by Rajesh Sir. This student who is basically from Bihar is struggling to meet the expenses for his studies. According to Rajesh Sir he hasn’t been able to pay his hostel fees for the last 2 months.
As you all might be aware , We have some surplus amount from the contributions that were made for Nisha ( another MECian also reffered by Rajesh Sir). We were thinking of using some money from this excess to help him out with the hostel expenses for 3 months (including this month). The total amount will come to 3 * 1500 = 4500/- . Just as an fyi Rajesh Sir is also looking out for getting a loan for further assisting him in meeting the expenses.

Please do let us know if anybody has any objection in utilising the money to this cause.
Thanks n' Regards, Shabana for XSA

A quick update on the case refered by Rajesh sir - Wed Jan 3, 2007

Hello all,

Hope you all remember the mail from Rajesh sir seeking help for the studies of a student at MEC. We have handed over Rs. 45000 to the student's parents last week. Just wanted to update you all that we have handed over the amount. Will upload the receipt and detailed financial transaction sheet of the initiative shortly.

Thanks

XSA team