{"id":126712,"date":"2018-07-13T08:03:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T08:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=126712"},"modified":"2018-07-13T08:03:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T08:03:07","slug":"deen-dayal-sparsh-yojana-2018-launched-promote-philately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/126712","title":{"rendered":"Deen Dayal SPARSH Yojana- 2018 launched to promote Philately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amritsar, July, 12 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; Minister of Communications Manoj Sinha had launched a PAN India scholarship program for school children called&nbsp;Deen Dayal SPARSH&nbsp;Yojana in the year 2017 to increase the reach of Philately which is also to be continue for the year 2018-19.Under the scheme of&nbsp;SPARSH&nbsp;(Scholarship for&nbsp;Promotion of&nbsp;Aptitude &amp;&nbsp;Research in&nbsp;Stamps as a&nbsp;Hobby), it is proposed to award annual scholarships to children of Standard VI to IX having good academic record and also pursuing Philately as a hobby through a competitive selection process in all postal circles. In this scheme, it is proposed to award 920 scholarships to students pursuing Philately as a hobby.&nbsp; Maximum of 40 scholarships representing 10 students each from Standard VI, VII, VIII &amp; IX to be selected. The amount of Scholarship will be Rs. 6000\/- per annum @ Rs. 500\/- per month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;To avail this scholarship a child must be a student of a recognized school within India and the concerned school should have a Philately Club and the candidate should be a member of the Club. In case the school Philately Club hasn\u2019t been established a student having his own Philately Deposit Account will also be considered.&nbsp;Every prospective school, which participates in the competition, would be assigned a Philately mentor to be chosen from amongst the renowned Philatelists.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Philately mentor&nbsp;would help in formation of the School level Philately Club, providing guidance to young and aspiring Philatelists on how to pursue the hobby and also helping the aspiring Philatelists on their Philately Projects etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Selections under the Deen Dayal SPARSH scheme would be made based on the evaluation of Project work on Philately &amp; performance in Philately Quiz conducted by the Circles. The details of the Scheme will be available on the website at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.postagestamps.gov.in\/\">www.postagestamps.gov.in<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/hp\/Downloads\/www.indiapost.gov.in\">www.indiapost.gov.in<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Philately&nbsp;is the hobby of collection and study of Postage&nbsp;stamps. It also entails the collection, appreciation and research activities on stamps and other related philatelic products.&nbsp;The hobby of collecting Stamps includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloguing, displaying, storing, and maintaining the stamps or related products on thematic areas.&nbsp;Philately is called the king of hobbies because Stamp collection as a hobby has lot of educational benefits &#8211; it teaches a lot about the socio economic political reality of the period in which the stamp is issued or the theme on which it is issued. Please come forward and enroll yourself by 31.08.2018 by visiting nearest Post Office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amritsar, July, 12 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; Minister of Communications Manoj Sinha had launched a PAN India scholarship program for school children called&nbsp;Deen Dayal SPARSH&nbsp;Yojana in the year 2017 to increase the reach of Philately which is also to be continue for the year 2018-19.Under the scheme of&nbsp;SPARSH&nbsp;(Scholarship for&nbsp;Promotion of&nbsp;Aptitude &amp;&nbsp;Research in&nbsp;Stamps as a&nbsp;Hobby), it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Deen Dayal SPARSH Yojana- 2018 launched to promote Philately | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/126712\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deen Dayal SPARSH Yojana- 2018 launched to promote Philately | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Amritsar, July, 12 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; 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