NSKT gives away Scholarships and Awards to the poor and deserving students to subsidize their expenses on education.

Scholarships:

The Trust has set up a Scholarship Selection Committee comprising a panel of educationists. This Committee, along with the Trustees, decides upon the award of scholarships on means-cum-merit basis. The following scholarships are awarded:

Nehru Scholarship
This scholarship is being awarded to the poor and deserving students whose parents are not able to bear the expenses of the books, uniforms etc. The scholarship is given right from Class-I to Class-XII. The scholarship amount is distributed in two equal instalments in a year.

The Trust has been awarding this scholarship since 1990. This scholarship is available on a continuous basis to students upto class 10+2 provided they clear the annual exam in the first attempt. The scholarship is sent to the school Principals/ Headmasters and Headmistresses, who in turn provide books, clothing, footwear, etc. to the students. Around 400 children are given Nehru Scholarship every year.

Nehru Scholarship (Meritorious)
This scholarship is being given to the students on means-cum-merit basis. Only those students who have secured 75% marks and above in class 5th are eligible for this scholarship. The scholarship amount is Rs.200/- per month for each student. The scholarship is being awarded in two equal installments in a year. The scholarship is withdrawn if any student secures less than 75% marks in subsequent examinations.

Mittal-Panday Scholarship (Girls)
The Trust selects minimum 36 girl students from nine colleges of Ludhiana each year and gives away Scholarships to them. This scholarship covers annual fees of the awardees for 3 years. The scholarship is further continued for subsequent years for the girls who score 60% or more marks in the annual exam. The yearly scholarship amount is Rs.3000/-, which is given to the student in the month of November every year.

This Award was instituted by the Trust in 1992 in the fond memory of its founder President Late Shri Sat Paul Mittal. This Award is given at the national level to person(s)/institution(s) rendering selfless services to the suffering humanity. This award carries an amount of Rs. 2 lakhs along with a citation and is given on November 14 every year, the birthday of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru.

Brief profile of recent recipients of the Award:

The Banyan (Chennai) and Shri D.R.Mehta (Jaipur), 2007 award recipients.

The Banyan a Chennai based NGO, is a unique initiative to reach out to the door, destitute, homeless and mentally ill women. In its 14 years of operation, The Banyan rehabilitated and rescued around 1800 mentally ill women and has reunited 850 of them to their families. The organisation has also established training partnership with NGO’s like Ashadeep (Assam) and Karuna Trust (Karnataka) to replicate their model.

Shri Devinder Raj Mehta, bureaucrat and now a social worker, had a keen desire for social service, which compelled him to start Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti in 1975, whiel in service. Because of his sheer commitment and dedication, this has emerged as the world’s largest limbs and calipers fitting organisation. Every year, about 50, 000 people from India and abroad are benefited from this organisation. The organisation’s “JAIPUR FOOT” is known globally and has put India’s name. The striking feature of the organisation is that 90% of the beneficiaries of this service are below poverty line and the organisation also undertakes to rehabilitate them so that they can lead an independent life.

Scholarship distribution and Sat Paul Mittal National Award was held on 13th November 2007. The Banyan from Chennai and Shri D.R. Mehta from Jaipur were the recipients of the Sat Paul Mittal National Award 2007.

Ela R. Bhatt, from Gujarat, 2006 award recipient.

Ela R. Bhatt has dedicated herself for the upliftment of the poor rural women, has formed SEWA (Self Employed Women Association), has worked on the un-organised peripheral & marginal workers in Gujarat and has formed a union of un-organised workers more specifically the women workers, led agitation's for their rights for minimum wages, has also setup a SEWA Bank for the labourers in distress, has won an award called the Lal Bahadur Shastri Award for excellence in Public Administration and Management.

Dr. Sahul Bharti, Nahan (Himachal Pradesh), 2005 award recipient.
For providing healthcare services to the people living in remote villages of Himachal Pradesh empowering the villagers with knowledge about diseases and its homemade cures and exposing the manner in which they are exploited by quacks.

Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi, Dehradun, 2004 award recipient.
For changing the lives of people in 150 villages in the Himalayan region by improving their overall living conditions and educating them regarding productivity of their farm yields.

Shri Jagan Nath Kaul, President SOS Children’s Villages, 2003 award recipient.
For establishing SOS Children’s Villages in India in every state of India.

Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement, Mysore , 2003 award co-recipient.
Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement, Mysore was started by a group of medical students in 1984. Its avowed objectives are to promote charity; to give medical assistance to the poor; to promote health education and family planning; and to look after socio-economic and moral welfare of the community. Under its Integrated Tribal Development Programme, Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement has built a 40-bedded multi-specialty care hospital.

Shri Sunil Dutt, 2002 award recipient
For his selfless contribution in providing modern facilities & treatment to the cancer patients.

Sou.Sindhutai Sapkal,Sammati Bal Niketan Sanstha, Meenkashi Building, IInd Floor, Tupe Ali, Vihar Chawk, Hadapsar, Pune-28, 2001 award recipient
A dedicated social worker who renders selfless service to the suffering & destitute children.

Shri Anna Hazare Kisan Babu Rao Alias Anna Hazare, Hind Swaraj Trust Firodia Hostel, Near B.M.C.College Road, Pune-411 004, 2000 award recipient
A great social worker, has espoused many a noble cause & alleviated the sufferings of the humanity.

Shri Karni Nagar, Vikar Samity, KOTA (RAJASTHAN), 1999 award recipient
For doing a great yeomen service to the humanity.

Dr V.S. Natarajan, Chennai, 1999 award recipient
For his memorable role in the field of Geriatrics.

Maharogi Sewa Samiti (Anandwan) Warora, Maharashtra, 1998 award recipient
For its contribution to the handicapped, the blind, deaf, aged persons, orphans and also primitive tribals of Madia Gond Community.

Navjyoti Delhi Police Foundation for Correction De-addiction & Rehabilitation, Delhi, 1998 award recipient
For its contribution in the field of Drug de-addiction & rehabilitation.

Mrs Saroj Kundra, Principal Hindi PUTRI Pathshalla, Khanna. 1997 award recipient
For her contributions in the field of education.

Shri Roshan Lal Puri, Hamirpur (H.P.), 1997 award recipient
For rendering help to the patients in Hospitals.

Shri Ram Lal Bhalla, Amritsar, 1996 award recipient
For his services as a Freedom fighter and as a Social Worker.

Shri Vineet Khanna, Chandigarh, 1996 award recipient
Imparted great vocational training to the young unemployed people inspite of physical disability.

Shri Shiv Kumar Sharda, Gurdaspur, 1995 award recipient
For his contribution to the environment & ecology of the area.

Dr Shiv Kumar, Palampur, 1995 award recipient
For providing free service & consultation in his Eye Care Clinics.

Shri Inderjeet Davar, Samana and Arya Anathalaya, Ferozepur Cantt., 1994 award recipient
The award was shared for doing yeomen services to humanity.

Shaheed Pariwar Fund Committee, Jalandhar, 1993 award recipient
Shaheed Pariwar Fund Committee of the Hind Samachar Group was given this award for their whole hearted support to the poor and needy and the suffering humanity.

Shri Bhagat Puran Singh, Amritsar and Pandit Vishwamitar Tiwari, Ludhiana, 1992 award recipient

The award was shared by Sh.Bhagat Puran Singh & Pandit Vishwamitar Tiwari for rendering help to the people in distress and for extending selfless service to the suffering mankind.

In 2004, Nehru Sidhant Kendra Trust embarked on a new project dedicated to the cause of education. The year brought in its wake an Institution par-excellence for the little ones of Ludhiana in the name of Sat Paul Mittal School. The school was named after Late Shri Sat Paul Mittal, founder president NSKT.
The school caters to the global needs of the children where emphasis is on the development of the child's personality and inculcation of moral and national values. The school is a remarkable addition to the rich legacy left behind by Shri Mittal. For more information, visit www.satpaulmittalschool.com.

The Trust also has a Nehru Library. The library was set up in 1983 by Late Shri Sat Paul Mittal and is equipped with books on Pandit Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and other eminent personalities.

It has an Air-Cooled Auditorium for the benefit of the citizens of Ludhiana and a number of cultural events are organised during the year.

It has been organising various cultural activities from time to time and also activities like On the Spot Painting Competition, Run for Peace, etc.

The Trust has been organising an All India Mushaira - Jashn-E-Sahir every year in association with Adeeb International, Ludhiana , to celebrate the birthday of the great poet, Sahir Ludhianvi. This event is being organised since 1973 and poets of national and international renown, from all over the world participate in the Mushaira. Outstanding poets are honoured and recognized on this occasion.

The Trust has been organizing Free Medical Camps, Eye camps and Blood Donation Camps.

NSKT associates itself with several institutes and organizations of Ludhiana for organizing various activities like inter-college debates and scholarships.

The scholarships are awarded to the women studying in the following colleges:

• Arya College for Women
  
• D.D. Jain Memorial College for Women
  
• Govt. College for Women
  
• Guru Nanak Girls College
  
• Guru Nanak Khalsa College for Women
  
• Khalsa College for Women
  
• Master Tara Singh Memorial College for Women
  
• Ramgarhia Girls College
  
• S.D.P. College for Women

For debates, in addition to the above mentioned women colleges, the following colleges are also invited to take part:

• Arya College for Boys
  
• B.C.M. College of Education
  
• G.G.N. Khalsa College for Boys
  
• Govt. College for Boys
  
• Home Science College, P.A.U
  
• Kamla Lothia S.D. College for Boys
  
• Malwa Central College for Education
  
• D.D. Jain College of Education
  
• Partap College of Education

Besides the above, NSKT also gives away scholarships in over 20 Government schools of Ludhiana.