GE partners with National Law School of India University to support advanced degrees

Sponsors three meritorious students for the Dr N.R Madhava Menon Doctoral Scholarship (2020-2023)

Bengaluru, India, 3 September 2020: GE India today announced its partnership with National Law School of India University, Bengaluru (NLSIU) for a three-year scholarship programme to sponsor the education of three deserving PhD candidates. The “Menon Scholar, supported by GE India” gets fully funded opportunities including annual tuition fees, monthly stipend, laptop and travel costs for attending a conference. The scholarship has been introduced this year to honor the founder of NLSIU, Dr. N. R. Madhava Menon. All candidates accepted for the doctoral programme at NLSIU will be eligible to apply for this scholarship. The overall sponsorship value is around ?75 lakhs.  

The three candidates will be selected by interviews conducted by the selection panel based on academic excellence, compelling trajectory and potential of their study proposal.  

General Counsel, GE- South Asia, John Thaliath, said, “GE is honored to support the scholarship of deserving PhD candidates who will take forward the rich research tradition of NLSIU. GE has stood for upholding the highest virtues of integrity and commitment to excellence. We believe that the same rigor needs to be cultivated within budding talent in humanities especially in the field of legal studies.”  

Vice Chancellor, NLSIU, Prof (Dr.) Sudhir Krishnaswamy, said, “The Dr. N. R. Madhava Menon Doctoral Scholarship was created to honour and celebrate the role of our Founder who pioneered legal education reform in India. This Scholarship programme will identify and support PhD Research Scholars at NLSIU to make an exceptional contribution to legal knowledge and legal education and to become future leaders in India.”

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The selected candidates must be full-time PhD scholars at NLSIU who will continue to demonstrate adequate progress in their doctoral studies during the term of their scholarship. The candidates shall have the opportunity to participate in mentoring sessions by luminaries in the legal field, which could include the Chancellor, Vice Chancellor and members of NLSIU’s General Council which comprises Judges of the Supreme Court, senior members of the Bar Council, and representatives of the Government of Karnataka. 

About NLSIU

NLSIU was the first National Law University established in 1988 to pioneer legal education reforms in India. Its founder, Prof. (Dr.) N. R. Madhava Menon committed the University to engaging with comprehensive legal system reforms and the University has remained the undoubted leader in legal education in India for the last three decades. NLSIU has been ranked first among legal institutions in the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s National Institutional Ranking Framework three years in a row - 2018, 2019 and 2020. NLSIU’s doctoral programme allows candidates to obtain a Ph. D degree in Law, one in Public Policy, and an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. programme.

 About GE

GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. For more than 125 years, GE has invented the future of industry, and today it leads new paradigms in additive manufacturing, materials science, and data analytics. GE people are global, diverse and dedicated, operating with the highest integrity and passion to fulfill GE’s mission and deliver for our customers

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