PhD scholar from Telangana gets MGNRCE fellowship

Kumram Bheem-Asifabad: Sayire Thirupathi, a PhD third-year scholar at the Department of English, Osmania University, has been selected for the two-year-long doctoral fellowship by Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education (MGNCRE), a wing of the department of higher education belonging to Ministry of Human Resource Department (MHRD) for the year 2021-22. He is the […]

Kumram Bheem-Asifabad: Sayire Thirupathi, a PhD third-year scholar at the Department of English, Osmania University, has been selected for the two-year-long doctoral fellowship by Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education (MGNCRE), a wing of the department of higher education belonging to Ministry of Human Resource Department (MHRD) for the year 2021-22.

He is the only candidate to be chosen for the fellowship from two Telugu States and one of the four picked from south India. The list of fellowship recipients was declared by the council on Thursday. A total of 20 scholars from across the country were selected for extending the fellowship.

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“I will conduct 300 workshops in educational institutions across the country and publish research articles in reputed journals of University Grants Commission (UGC) and other publications, under the fellowship. The objective of the fellowship is to enable language skills and to create employability among rural students using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). I should have to become a resource person to MHRD,” Thirupati told ‘Telangana Today.’

Hailing from Chintalamanepalli mandal centre, Thirupathi lost his father Nagesh, a small-time farmer to some disease during his childhood. Despite challenges and financial constraints, he excelled in academics and signed up PhD programme at the Department of English. He is the maiden student to pursue the degree from backward community, Are Kshatriya in the district.

PhD scholar’s project on tribal empowerment

Tirupathi, a PhD scholar, has successfully completed a mini project titled “Developing Employability and Empowerment among Tribes through Life Skills” during Covid-19 lockdown.

He focused on primitive tribes living in remote villages of Bejjur, Chintalamanepalli and Koutala mandals. He formed motivational groups to create awareness on life skills among Koya, Mannewar and Kolams and helped these tribes fight against social evils, exploitation by money lenders and local traders.

Thirupathi said the members of the focus group will be freed from clutches of poverty and will be able to ensure the education of their children and a positive cycle of development would begin in tribal habitations as envisaged by Mahatma Gandhi. He stated that the experience and findings of the project helped him in the selection by MGNCRE for the prestigious fellowship.

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