Shri Varun Panwar Memorial Award for B.Sc. Agriculture (2nd Year, 3rd Year, and 4th Year) Students

What is the Shri Varun Panwar Memorial Award?

The Shri Varun Panwar Memorial Award is an endowment award administered by G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (GBPUAT), Pantnagar, in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand. The award recognises and encourages meritorious students of the B.Sc. Agriculture programme who are in the 2nd, 3rd or 4th year of study, that is, all three senior years of the four-year degree.

GBPUAT was founded in 1960 as India's first agricultural university, and it remains a Uttarakhand state government institution. Alongside its regular scholarship schemes, the university administers a large number of named endowment awards, created by families, alumni and well-wishers in memory of an individual. The Shri Varun Panwar Memorial Award is one of these, tied to the university's College of Agriculture and to the B.Sc. Agriculture degree.

Endowment awards of this kind are funded from a fixed corpus, not from a fresh state grant each year. The university invests the corpus, and the income it throws off is what is given to the selected student. That is why the amount attached to such an award is not a permanently published figure and can change from one year to the next.

What makes this award different from GBPUAT's other scholarships?

GBPUAT's Dean, Student Welfare office states that about 40 types of scholarships are available to students through various sources; state scholarships, national fellowships, merit scholarships, sports scholarships, tuition-fee freeships and a long list of named endowment awards including the Dr. A.N. Mukhopadhyay Gold Medal, the Smt. Bimla Rani Memorial Award, the Dr. Santosh Kumar Sharma Award and the Dr. V.N. Mathur Award.

Each endowment carries its own donor conditions, which fix the college, the degree programme, the year of study and the basis of selection. What distinguishes the Shri Varun Panwar Memorial Award within that list is its unusually wide year band: most named awards are locked to a single year of study, typically the final year, whereas this one is open across the 2nd, 3rd and 4th years of B.Sc. Agriculture. For a student, that means the award can be applied for in three consecutive academic years rather than just once.

Who is eligible for the Shri Varun Panwar Memorial Award?

You can be considered if:

• You are a bona fide B.Sc. Agriculture student at GBPUAT, Pantnagar.
• You are in the 2nd, 3rd or 4th year of the programme in the year the award is invited.
• You have a strong academic record. The award is decided on merit, usually on OGPA or aggregate marks.
• You are currently registered for the relevant academic session.

You cannot apply / are not eligible if:

• You are in the 1st year of B.Sc. Agriculture. The award begins from the 2nd year.
• You are enrolled in a different degree programme; B.Tech, B.V.Sc., B.Sc. Home Science or a postgraduate course, since the endowment is tied to B.Sc. Agriculture.
• You are a student of another college or university. Only GBPUAT students qualify.
• You are not registered for the current session, or your registration has lapsed.
• Your academic record is weaker than that of the other applicants; with typically one awardee, selection is comparative.

How to apply for the Shri Varun Panwar Memorial Award

GBPUAT handles endowment awards through an offline, plain-paper route managed by the Dean, Student Welfare. There is no dedicated online portal for this award.

1. Watch for the university notice inviting applications for endowment awards and scholarships. These are issued each academic year through the Dean, Student Welfare office, the College of Agriculture office and college notice boards.
2. Write a plain-paper application addressed to the Dean, Student Welfare, GBPUAT, Pantnagar, naming the Shri Varun Panwar Memorial Award specifically and stating your year of study.
3. Attach your documents — bonafide or enrolment proof for the current year of B.Sc. Agriculture, and your semester marksheets or OGPA statement showing merit.
4. Submit before the last date given in the notice, at the office named there, and keep an acknowledgement.
5. Await the selection, which the university makes on comparative merit among the applicants, and then collect or receive the award once it is sanctioned.

What documents are required?

How much does the award provide, and how is it paid?

The Shri Varun Panwar Memorial Award provides a merit award to the selected B.Sc. Agriculture student, funded from the memorial endowment. The exact amount is fixed by the university and depends on the income the endowment corpus generates, so it is not published as a fixed figure on the university website.

This guide does not quote a rupee amount, because no verified current figure was available on an official source. For comparison and context only, GBPUAT's general merit scholarships administered by the Dean, Student Welfare typically run in the range of Rs 8,000 to Rs 15,000 a year; the endowment awards are separate from these and each carries its own value. Confirm the current figure with the Dean, Student Welfare office on +91-5944-233536 or by email at dsw.gbpuat@gmail.com.

Payment is normally made either by credit to the student's bank account or through the university's student-accounts system, and awards of this kind are often announced at convocation or at an internal college function.

Why applications get rejected, and how to avoid it

• Applying in the 1st year, when the award starts only from the 2nd year.
• Wrong degree programme. The endowment is fixed to B.Sc. Agriculture.
• Application submitted after the last date given in the notice.
• Marksheets not attached, so merit cannot be assessed and the file is set aside.
• Lower academic merit than competing applicants, this is the commonest and most legitimate reason, and it is not a defect in the application.
• Not naming the award. A general scholarship request may be considered for a different award, or for none.

How to check the status of your application

Because this is an internal university award with no online tracker, the status is followed through the office, not a website:

1. Get an acknowledgement when you submit the application to the Dean, Student Welfare or the College of Agriculture office, and keep it.
2. Follow up with that office after the closing date to ask when the awards for the year will be decided.
3. Watch college and university notice boards and the student corner on gbpuat.ac.in for the list of endowment-award recipients.
4. Call +91-5944-233536 or write to dsw.gbpuat@gmail.com if the outcome is not announced.

Key facts and where to get help

• Institution: G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand.
• Office: Dean, Student Welfare. The central point for GBPUAT's endowment awards, merit scholarships, sports scholarships and tuition-fee freeships.
• Phone: +91-5944-233536. Email: dsw.gbpuat@gmail.com.
• Eligible years: 2nd, 3rd and 4th year B.Sc. Agriculture.
• Mode: offline, plain-paper application when invited.

A student who is not eligible for this award should ask the same office which of the roughly 40 scholarships fits their programme and year, several are open to students the endowment awards exclude. If a student believes an award was decided unfairly or an application was not considered at all, the route is a written representation to the Dean, Student Welfare, and failing that an RTI application to the university's public information officer asking how the award was decided for that year. There is no separate state helpline for an internal university endowment.

Note on verification: the award's link to GBPUAT and its eligibility across the 2nd, 3rd and 4th years of B.Sc. Agriculture come from the scheme reference; the Dean, Student Welfare contact details, the roughly 40 scholarship types and the existence of a family of named endowment awards are confirmed on gbpuat.ac.in. A specific benefit amount, the number of awards given each year and the exact application window are not published on an official source and must be confirmed with GBPUAT.