The Wipro Scholarship 2026 is not a single programme but a family of education support initiatives run by different arms of the Wipro group — the Wipro Foundation’s Earthian programme for schools and colleges, the Santoor Women’s Scholarship run by Wipro Consumer Care for girl students, and Wipro Cares community education support in the company’s operational regions. Each track has its own eligibility, amount, and application route, so students searching for the Wipro Scholarship should first identify which programme actually fits their profile before applying.
For most individual student applicants in 2026, the Santoor Women’s Scholarship is the primary money-in-hand track — it provides an annual scholarship to girl students from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka who have completed Class 12 from government or aided schools and are entering higher education. Earthian, by contrast, is a sustainability education competition that awards schools and colleges rather than paying individual tuition. This guide explains all three tracks with their amounts, eligibility, and application processes.
Wipro Programmes at a Glance
| Programme | Who It Is For | Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Santoor Women’s Scholarship | Girl students from AP, Telangana, Karnataka | Rs 24,000 per year for higher education |
| Wipro Earthian | Schools and colleges (team participation) | Awards, recognition, sustainability education engagement |
| Wipro Cares Education Support | Communities near Wipro locations | School support, infrastructure, learning programmes |
Santoor Women’s Scholarship — Amount
- Annual scholarship of Rs 24,000 paid directly to the selected girl student
- Support is for the full duration of the undergraduate course, renewed each year on continued enrollment
- The amount can be used for tuition, books, travel, and study-related expenses without itemised restrictions
- Several hundred new scholars are selected in each annual cycle across the three eligible states
Santoor Scholarship — Eligibility
- Girl students who are residents of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, or Karnataka
- Completed Class 10 and Class 12 from government or government-aided schools in these states
- Enrolled in the first year of a full-time undergraduate degree — any stream including Arts, Science, Commerce, and professional courses
- From economically weaker families — the programme is need-focused and prioritises students whose education would be at risk without support
- Girls who studied in private unaided schools are not eligible, as the programme specifically supports the government-school pathway
Documents Required
| Document | Details |
|---|---|
| Class 10 Marksheet | From government/aided school |
| Class 12 Marksheet | From government/aided school |
| School Certificates | Proof that schooling was in government/aided institutions |
| Admission Proof | First-year UG admission letter or bonafide |
| Income Proof | Tehsildar income certificate |
| Aadhaar Card | Identity and state residence proof |
| Bank Passbook | Student’s own account preferred |
| Photograph | Recent passport-size photo |
How to Apply — Santoor Scholarship
Step 1 — Open the Application Portal
The Santoor Women’s Scholarship application is hosted online during the annual window, typically announced on the Santoor scholarship page and through partner platforms. Search Santoor Women’s Scholarship official application and use only the official link.
Step 2 — Fill the Application Form
Enter personal details, school history with the names of the government or aided schools attended, Class 10 and 12 marks, current college admission details, and family income. Accuracy on the school type is critical — the government/aided school condition is verified against the uploaded certificates.
Step 3 — Upload Documents and Submit
Upload all documents, review the form, and submit before the deadline. Save the acknowledgement number.
Step 4 — Verification and Selection
Shortlisted applicants may receive a verification call or be asked for additional documents. Selected scholars are notified, and the first year’s Rs 24,000 is credited after bank verification.
Wipro Earthian — How It Works
Earthian is Wipro’s sustainability education programme for schools and colleges. Institutions register teams that work on sustainability-themed learning activities around water, waste, biodiversity, and energy, and submit their entries in the annual cycle. Winning schools and colleges receive Earthian awards, and continued engagement opportunities with the Wipro Foundation’s education network. Earthian is best understood as an institutional recognition and engagement programme — students benefit through participation certificates, exposure, and their institution’s ongoing relationship with the Foundation, not through individual tuition payments. Students interested in Earthian should ask their school or college coordinator to register the institution during the announced cycle.
Wipro Cares Education Support
Wipro Cares works in communities around Wipro’s office and factory locations, funding school infrastructure, learning improvement programmes, and education continuity support for underserved children. This support flows through partner NGOs and schools rather than individual applications. Families living near major Wipro locations can ask local partner schools whether Wipro Cares programmes operate in their area.
Selection Process — Santoor
- Screening — residence, school-type, enrollment, and income checks
- Need ranking — priority to students with the weakest financial circumstances
- Verification — document checks and clarification calls where needed
- Selection and disbursement — annual Rs 24,000 credited to the scholar’s account
Renewal Rules
Santoor scholars continue receiving Rs 24,000 each year of their undergraduate course by submitting proof of continued enrollment and their latest marksheet. The renewal is straightforward for students who remain in the same course and progress normally. Scholars who change courses or institutions should inform the programme team with the new admission documents, as continuation in such cases is decided individually.
Preparation Tips
- Collect school certificates proving government/aided schooling for both Class 10 and Class 12 — this is the most commonly missing document
- Get the Tehsildar income certificate made before the window opens
- Apply in the early weeks of the window to avoid deadline congestion
- Open a bank account in the student’s own name before applying
- Keep the registered mobile active for verification calls through the selection period
- For Earthian, speak to your school or college coordinator early — institutional registration deadlines come before submission deadlines
Timeline 2026 — Santoor Track
| Stage | Typical Period |
|---|---|
| Applications Open | With the new academic session |
| Deadline | As per annual announcement |
| Screening & Verification | 1–2 months after deadline |
| Selection Results | 2–3 months after deadline |
| First Disbursement | After bank verification |
Because the eligibility requires first-year undergraduate enrollment, the practical preparation window is the gap between Class 12 results and college joining. Girls in AP, Telangana, and Karnataka who studied in government schools should collect their school-type certificates during this gap — it is the one document that cannot be produced overnight if the old school is far from the current residence.
Common Mistakes in Santoor Applications
- Missing school-type proof — applicants upload marksheets, but not certificates confirming the schools were government or aided; this is the programme’s most specific requirement and its most common gap
- Applying from ineligible states — the three-state restriction is absolute; applications from other states are screened out regardless of merit or need
- Private-school Class 12 assumed acceptable — the government/aided pathway condition applies across schooling, and undeclared private schooling surfaces during verification
- Parent’s bank account submitted — the scholarship prefers the student’s own account; open one before applying
- Late applications — the window closes firmly and the need-ranked selection cannot consider forms that never arrived
Getting the School-Type Certificate
The school-type certificate is a simple letter from the school confirming it is a government or government-aided institution, issued on letterhead with the headmaster’s signature and seal. For your Class 10 school, visit or write to the school office with your name, admission number, and passing year — schools issue this within a few days. For aided institutions, the letter should explicitly use the word aided, since the distinction between aided and unaided private schools is exactly what verification checks. Students whose old school has closed or merged should approach the local Mandal or Block Education Officer, who can certify the institution’s status from department records. Doing this in June–July, before the application rush, turns the hardest document into the easiest one.
Santoor vs Other Girls’ Scholarships
| Feature | Santoor | Kotak Kanya | STEM Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography | AP/TS/Karnataka | All India | All India |
| Streams | All streams | Professional only | STEM only |
| Marks Bar | Need-focused, modest | 85%+ | ~80%+ |
| Amount/Year | Rs 24,000 | Up to Rs 1.5 lakh | Up to ~Rs 1 lakh |
| School Condition | Govt/aided schooling | None | None |
Santoor’s uniqueness is its accessibility — a girl with ordinary marks from a government school, entering a BA in a small-town college, is exactly its target scholar, whereas Kotak Kanya and STEM Stars filter for high scorers in specific streams. Eligible girls should file Santoor as their anchor application and add the merit-heavy programmes only where marks genuinely qualify.
Financial Planning with Rs 24,000
Rs 24,000 a year maps closely to the real cost structure of general degrees in the three eligible states, where government and aided college tuition typically runs Rs 3,000–Rs 15,000 annually. A practical split for a scholar is tuition and examination fees first, then books and materials, then a monthly travel allowance for the college commute — for many scholars the amount covers all three with margin. Scholars should keep fee receipts and a simple expense note each year; beyond supporting renewal, this habit is the beginning of financial discipline that the scholarship’s founders intend the money to teach. Families should resist absorbing the scholarship into general household expenses — its purpose and its renewal both depend on the education actually being funded.
Fraud Alert
Fake Santoor and Wipro scholarship pages appear each season charging registration fees or collecting Aadhaar data. The genuine application is free, uses only the official announced portal, and never requests payment or banking OTPs. Refuse any fee demand, verify the link from official Santoor or Wipro pages, and report fraud at cybercrime.gov.in.
Earthian Participation — A Student’s Route
Students who want the Earthian experience should drive the process inside their institution rather than waiting for it. The route is concrete: identify a teacher willing to be the coordinating faculty, register the school or college on the Earthian portal when the cycle opens, form a small team, and pick one sustainability theme — water, waste, or biodiversity — where the campus has a real, observable problem to study. Winning entries are consistently the ones grounded in actual measurement (metering the campus water use, auditing the canteen’s waste stream) rather than essay-style submissions. Even without winning, participants gain a documented project, a certificate, and exposure to structured sustainability thinking that strengthens college applications and interviews. For students in Wipro-supported schools, participation also deepens the institution’s relationship with the Foundation, which channels further learning programmes toward engaged schools.
Renewal Documentation — Santoor Year Two Onward
- Latest year’s marksheet showing promotion to the next year of the course
- Fresh bonafide or enrollment certificate from the college for the new academic year
- Confirmation that the bank account remains active and unchanged, or updated details if changed
- Any additional declaration the programme requests for that year’s continuation
Scholars should submit renewal documents within days of the request rather than weeks — the annual Rs 24,000 release only after the file is complete, and late paperwork is the dominant cause of delayed instalments across scholarship programmes generally. A simple habit solves it: the day college reopens each year, collect the bona fide and scan the marksheet, so the renewal file sits ready before it is asked for.
Choosing Between the Wipro Tracks — A Decision Guide
A Class 12 girl in a Karnataka government school entering any degree should apply to Santoor — it is the direct-money track built precisely for her. A school or college wanting institutional engagement and sustainability learning should register for Earthian through a coordinating teacher. A community school near a Wipro location seeking infrastructure or learning support should have its management contact Wipro Cares’ partner network rather than individual students applying. Students who fit none of these — boys, girls outside the three states, private-school alumni — lose nothing by redirecting the same effort to the national programmes covered across this series: HDFC ECSS for broad eligibility, SBI Asha for high scorers, Tata Pankh for the widest income ceiling. Matching profile to programme before applying is the entire skill of scholarship strategy, and the Wipro family of programmes rewards it more than most because its tracks are so sharply defined.
Final Submission Checklist — Santoor
- Residence confirmed in AP, Telangana, or Karnataka with Aadhaar address matching
- School-type certificates obtained for both Class 10 and Class 12 institutions
- First-year undergraduate admission proof collected from the college
- Tehsildar income certificate made, and its figure entered identically in the form
- Bank account opened in the student’s own name and Aadhaar-seeded
- All uploads previewed for clarity, and the acknowledgement number saved
An eligible girl who clears this checklist has done everything within her control — from there the need-ranked selection does its work, and the Rs 24,000 annual support through the degree rewards exactly the government-school pathway the programme exists to honour. Girls narrowly outside Santoor’s conditions should convert the same prepared file into applications for the national alternatives the very same week, because every document gathered for Santoor is reusable across ECSS, Asha, and Pankh without change.
One last practical note for teachers and parents in the three eligible states: government school headmasters are the programme’s natural amplifiers, and a headmaster who keeps a copy of each passing girl’s school-type certificate ready at Class 12 farewell removes the single biggest friction from her Santoor application months later. Schools that institutionalise this small habit see measurably more of their alumnae funded through college, which is the quiet, compounding way a Rs 24,000 scholarship changes a district over a decade.
And for the girls themselves reading this while weighing whether the effort is worth it for Rs 24,000 a year: across a three-year degree the support totals Rs 72,000, arrives without any repayment obligation, and comes bundled with the confidence of having been selected on genuine merit of circumstance — an amount and an affirmation that together have carried tens of thousands of government-school girls through degrees their families could not otherwise have financed.
FAQs
Can girls from states other than AP, Telangana, and Karnataka apply?
No. The Santoor Women’s Scholarship is limited to eligible girls from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka. Students from other states can explore national or state-level scholarships.
Does Wipro offer other individual scholarships?
The Santoor Women’s Scholarship is Wipro’s main individual scholarship programme. Students can also consider Tata Pankh, Reliance Foundation, or SBI Asha scholarships.
Can I apply if Class 10 was from a government school but Class 12 was private?
Usually, no. The scholarship requires the specified government or aided-school pathway. Students from government-aided schools should verify their eligibility before applying.