In past couple of years, scores of scholarship programmes for students have dramatically changed the perception of learners particularly the girl-students belonging from the underprivileged families.
In this period, authorities have come-up with multiple scholarship programs that were launched to help Kashmiri students to overcome the obstacles which they used to face through their studies period.
Challenging circumstances befalling the community, yet scholarships serve as a beacon of hope guiding their path toward educational opportunities that many thought impossible.
Today’s scholarships granted to students are not scholarships in terms of mere money but otherwise serve as instruments of empowerment and change.
Indeed, the ever-widening pools of students these days are hugely benefiting areas of higher education in science, technology, arts, and humanities for the fulfillment of their dreams.
With their numerous hopes and dreams, many young minds are gradually finding that the shackles due to financial constraints that earlier limited them in their ambitions are being removed, while their dreams are growing bigger and aims larger.
However, this is particularly exciting for girls who have experienced many barriers in furthering their education. Families have been encouraged to allow their daughters more access to education, thereby developing a more equitable environment for education.
Since becoming the intellectuals of the future, the modernizers and the leaders who will take on the world of tomorrow in Kashmir, one gets a sense of a Kashmir with energy built around an education as the foundation on which growth and prosperity may grow.
In this cause, the government must work together with NGOs, maintain the momentum already generated, and work to bring education into the lives of people who can now access it and ensure that the fruits of learning reach the actual beneficiaries of this as a legacy of empowerment for future generations.
