General Cultural Scholarship Scheme of ICCR

ICCR (INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS ) was founded in 1950 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, independent India’s first Education Minister. The Council helps formulate and implement policies pertaining to India’s external cultural relations, to foster mutual understanding between India and other countries and to promote cultural exchanges with other peoples.

One of the major activities of the ICCR is its scholarship programme. The ICCR annually offers about 2325 scholarships under 21 scholarship schemes.

The embassy of India in Armenia is authorized to conduct The General Cultural Scholarship Scheme in  Armenia.GCSS is one of the most important and popular schemes of the ICCR for foreign students.

Scholarships are awarded under this scheme annually to international students belonging to certain Asian, African and Latin American countries for the undergraduate, postgraduate degrees and for pursuing research at Indian universities. However, scholarships for medical studies for MBBS, BDS or for medical research leading to a Ph.D. degree are not offered under the GCSS scheme. Within the framework of this program there are 2 slots for meritorious students from Armenia to study under graduate/post graduate courses in Arts, Science, Engineering, Indian classical dance, music and fine arts in educational institutions in India.

The candidates should have fluent knowledge of English.  The selected candidates will be given a monthly scholarship, book allowance, hostel accommodation subject to availability and reimbursement of tuition fees.  However, the candidates will have to bear their own international air passage from Armenia to India and back. 

You can find all needed information with these links below:

Application Form for Scholarships for Foreign Students, 2011
Guidelines for ICCR Scholarship Holders, 2011
List of Universities Recognised by the University Grants Commission of India
Scholarship Terms for Different Courses


The scholarships are usually announced in the month of December for ensuing academic year.  Please watch for announcements.  Meanwhile, for The General Cultural Scholarship Scheme interested candidates may contact Embassy of India on any working day between 10:00 am - 17:00 pm.

For other scholarship schemes offered by ICCR  you have to contact the ICCR directly.

Scholarship opportunities in India

Many of the young members of our Indo-Armenian society are interested whether there is an opportunity to study in India and what is the procedure for that. To meet this need we are going to provide you with all needed information about each program. Meanwhile we would appreciate all those who have already taken any of these opportunities to share their experience with applicants in order to help them to orientate better.

The Government of India offers 3 types of scholarship programs for Armenian citizens which can be implemented at the Indian embassy in Armenia. Also a memorandum of understanding was signed between The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia and  Indian National Science Academy on scientific cooperation.

We are going to introduce to you each program in separate posts:


General Cultural Scholarship Scheme of ICCR

Scholarship offer from the Government of India 

CTS-2011: Country of Talking Stones

On 25-26 May, 2011 International Tourism Fair was held in Marriott Hotel Yerevan, Armenia.

CTS2011 is an international event focused on the development of regional tourism.The event is organized by the Armenian Association of Travel Agents (AATA) and Armenian Chapter of American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) under the patronage of RA Ministry of Economy with the support of the Armenian-German cooperation program (GTZ) and the Union of Armenia Hotels

Travel agencies and tour operators, airlines, hotels and resorts, insurance companies, public and non-governmental organizations, tourism publications, information agencies, educational institutions, restaurants, organizations supporting tourism sector and leading brandy and wine producers participate in the Fair from different country.

Wishing good luck to YSMU students

Dear Friends,

Today is a significant day for some of our group members - Students of the last grade of Yerevan State Medical University. They complete their education today and knock the door of a new phase in their professional life.

Let's wish them good luck and success not only in career but also in personal life. The IAF sincerely hope that wherever their life takes them, they will never forget Armenia and those years spent here will remain in their mind and hearts.

We urge all of those members to keep abreast with IAF updates and if possible always be ready to volunteer the cause of IAF.

Wish you all a very good luck.

OUR NEW PAGE IN FACEBOOK

Dear Friends, as FACEBOOK is archiving all Old Groups soon, so we will soon be converted into New Group, in which we might lose connections with each others. As a SOLUTION, we have created this FAN PAGE where we all can be connected to each others. Also we will have information, who is posting what at each postings. Please Join in great number and invite your friends too to join this. 

 

 India-Armenia Friendship (IAF)

 

It's been indeed a great journey of solidarity for India-Armenia friendship and we hope it will take us towards creating a history of Mutual love and respect at the most grass-root level too.

Looking forward to see you all there.

Long live INDIA-ARMENIA FRIENDSHIP

Embassy of India organized Indian Film Screening in Yerevan

By Nelly Manucharyan

23, 24 and 25 March 2011
Yerevan, Congress Hotel, Klimt Hall

The Embassy of India in Armenia recently held the screening of Indian Documentary and Feature Films.

The goal of this event was to represent the historical diversity of Indian culture through the motion pictures and documentaries. The program of the events consisted of two films each day: one documentary and one feature film.

During the screening days, the invited viewers had the opportunity to discover India by watching Documentary films such as Humsaye - Two Nations, Two Neighbors (audio-Russian), India by Choice (audio-Russian), Incredible India: welcome to Goa, as well as to enjoy modern films of Indian cinematography like Om Shanti Om, Bhool-Bhulaiyaa, We are Family with English subtitles.

The participating viewers expressed their gratitude to the organizers of this event and took with them new impressions and knowledge about the unique culture and civilization of India.

Embassy of India organised a Hindi lanuage Competition

In Armenia there are currently three educational institutes where Hindi is taught as a subject. These are Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Bryusov, Yerevan Humanities Institute and Galiq College in Ijevan. On March 19 on the occasion of Hindi Day the Embassy of India organized a competition among the students of these three institutions.

At Yerevan State Linguistic University Hindi is taught as a second and third foreign language. The Hindi Chair at the University was established by Indian Council of Cultural Relations of the Government of India in February 2010. The lecturer is Mrs Anita Verma. Within one year, the number of students enrolled in learning Hindi has increased from 15 to 70.

Yerevan Humanities Institute started its activity in 1991. Hripsime Nersisyan who was studying Hindi at this Institute started teaching Hindi here in 2008 after completing her one-year scholarship at Agra University, India.

The Hindi class of Galiq College was established in February 2003. Hindi is taught by Astghik Aghajanyan who studied Hindi in India.

Among the 28 participants 7 were from YSLU, 7 were from YHI and 11 were from Galiq College. The participants were mainly girls and only 1 boy was there to represent Galiq College.

Anita Verma, Astghik Aghajanyan, Hripsime Nersisyan