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Yanfo Kikon: An initiative to help both our entrepreneurs and our students in one shot!! We are yet to realise the power and impact of Online Ads on businesses. Try it and see. Till date we have been able to generate only Rs.4000 through this initiative. The two companies which blessed the Scholarship program are NAHAN Business Solutions Co. Ltd and NK Square Infotech Pvt. Ltd.! The scholarship/award after the results are declared will be given to the deserving students from under-privileged backgrounds in the name of those businesses which sponsored the prizes.
Since we have had poor response from potential advertisers, we are now bringing down the cost of advertising to Rs.500/week. And yes, WE SHALL NOT GIVE UP! WE ACTUALLY NEVER DO.
Entrepreneurs may Inbox the Admins or Comment here if interested to advertise. Please help bring more Ads to contribute to our cause. 'TNB Scholar Award' is a pilot phase of the bigger programme 'TNB Scholarship Programme'. Thank you and bless you to those who will avail this opportunity to reach your business to a whole new audience and also contribute to a positive vision.
TNB Scholarship Programme Since 2008, our core objective as a growing online platform has been to ignite little sparks in the minds of our youth to contribute towards positive changes in our society. Over the years, the thousands of discussions, debates, ideation have led to our realisation that if we really want change; the greatest, sustainable and long lasting impact can be brought only through EDUCATION, by giving the best opportunities through education to those who are not financially fortunate to pursue courses which will empower and enable them to become future leaders and agents of positive transformation.
On my trip to Wokha, while deliberating on this issue with a faculty from Mount Tiyi College, I learnt that there was a brilliant student who really wanted to pursue technical degree course in Civil Engineering. His parents sell vegetables for their livelihood and obviously could not get the education loan or any form of assistance to help him realise his dreams. This is just one among the hundreds of cases where brilliant, genuine students are forced to give up their education, give up their dreams of becoming scientists, researchers, innovators, engineers, architects, designers and are forced to settle for courses which limit their true calling and lose their real potential.
After much thought and planning, we have been able to come up with a Ad-Revenue plan which we hope can generate even a small amount to TOP-UP the financial requirements of brilliant students from economically poor backgrounds which will ease the burden on their parents who usually seek loans or even sell their property to provide a decent education to their children.
Unlike newspaper ads, in TNB we offer a unique opportunity where your business will be advertised through the MAIN COVER BANNER of the group which will be visible to THOUSANDS of visitors to the group every single day. Cost of Advertising on TNB: Rs.500 for One Week. Your business will be advertised for an entire week - 168 hours at a cost of just Rs.500 ONLY!
THE SOCIAL IMPACT: 80% of revenue will be used for providing Scholarship to students from economically poor backgrounds which will ease burden on their parents and help them pursue technical courses so that in the future we will have our own scientists, engineers, researchers, scholars, innovators from the educationally deprived sections of our society.
The remaining can be used to seed small fund raising initiatives like printing stickers, T-shirts or other innovative campaigns.
AWARD/SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNT: The amount will be 80% of revenue generated through Advertisement on TNB. This amount will be provided to support the beneficiary's admission/ tuition/ hostel fees either partially or completely depending on the Scholarship Amount and the Education Fees.
SELECTION BASE: To make things simpler for us, we shall limit our nominees from all Govt. Higher Secondary Schools in Nagaland and the Government Polytechnic Colleges - i) Khelhoshe Polytechnic Atoizu ii) Government Polytechnic Kohima iii) ICIT Mokokchung which offer Technical Diploma courses. Why only Science Stream Government Higher Secondary? Because these are the students whose parents/ guardians are able to afford only the most economical institutes. Hence, this leads us directly to the least financially poor section.
SELECTION CRITERIA: The top 10 highest scoring students will be nominated automatically: A. Based on Marks: This will carry 50% weightage in the selection B. Based on family background: This will carry the remaining 50% weightage in the selection The final selection of beneficiary will be tabulated by aggregating A + B.a + B.
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