TVS Motor rolls out Scholarship Fund

Chennai: Two and three-wheeler major TVS Motor has launched the “TVS Cheema Scholarship” fund with a corpus of Rs 100 crore, to serve 500 students every year, the company said on Sunday. The aim of the programme is to offer financial support to students of mechanical engineering branch from Tamil Nadu every year, company Chairman-Emeritus Venu Srinivasan said. The scholarship was unveiled by Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday evening, at an event to commemorate the birth centenary of the founder of the company T S Srinivasan, fondly known as ‘Cheema’, who is also a mechanical engineer. This scholarship is a fitting tribute to his memory and aims to promote future talent and expand opportunities for deserving students pursuing mechanical engineering, which is a key to robotics and future technologies, a company statement said. TVS Motor would work closely with premier educational institutions in the country to offer this scholarship to exceptional students.