WhatsApp Vice President Neeraj Arora, an alumnus of Indian School of Business (ISB), has instituted a perpetual merit-cum-need-based scholarship for women students at ISB’s flagship Post Graduate Programme in Management.
The first recipient is Salini Tiwari, a dental surgeon from the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, who has worked to improve the healthcare facilities in the islands and provide support to the inhabitants. She has been serving in the community and district hospitals in rural areas of north and middle of Andaman, raising awareness for oral diseases in the surrounding villages in the islands. Tiwari has also devised a computerised system of record collection and data storage which is extensively used in these institutes.
Titled the “Jagannath Arora Scholarship”, Neeraj has instituted this scholarship to fulfil his father’s aspiration to support talented and deserving young women professionals pursue a career of their choice.
This is the second such scholarship from an individual ISB alumnus, the first being the Phoenix Nurture India scholarship instituted by Amit Khanna, alumnus, and founder of Phoenix Holdings, who has awarded ten scholarships over the years supporting students who are the sole earning members in their families.
Rajendra Srivastava, Dean, ISB said: “These scholarships will ensure that meritorious students will not miss a deserving opportunity due to financial constraints. Every such contribution will allow us to attract the best of talent and nurture them for the future.”