The Legrand Empowering Scholarship Program 2025-26, a Social Initiative of Group Legrand India, aims to provide financial support to meritorious girls, differently-abled girls, Covid-affected students, LGBTQ+ students and students with single parents or orphans for their higher education. Under this program, academically promising girl students pursuing B.Tech., B.E., B.Arch., or other undergraduate degrees in Finance or Science (such as B.Sc., B.Com., B.B.A., etc.) will receive 60% of the annual course fee, up to INR 60,000 per year. Students in the special category* will receive 80% of the annual course fee, up to INR 1,00,000 per year, until they complete their course, based on their academic performance.
*Special category: Differently-abled girl students, LGBTQ+ students, Covid-affected students, and students with single parents or orphans.
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About Legrand
Legrand is a global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructure. Based in Limoges, Legrand operates in 90 countries with a market presence in over 180 countries. Legrand offers a wide range of products, including:
- Energy distribution
- Wiring devices
- Home automation
- Structured cabling
- UPS
- Lighting management solutions
- Cable management
- Industrial application products
Legrand, a global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructure, has been illuminating millions of Indian homes while empowering female students to pursue higher education and become future leaders in Engineering, Architecture, Finance and Science. As part of Group Legrand India commitment to promote diversity, Equity, and Inclusion the scholarship support is extended to differently-abled girl children and LGBTQ+ communities. Till date, over 500 students have benefited from this scholarship program.
Key Highlights
- Scholarship benefit is given till the end of the course based on the student’s performance.
- Mentoring support is provided to the selected scholarship beneficiaries by Legrand India. Industrial experts and subject matter experts to build women’s future leaders.
- A bi-annual Student Connect Program is organized for all the beneficiaries of this scholarship program to connect with Leaders of Group Legrand India and to build a network for development.
Eligibility
- Open to differently-abled girl students, LGBTQ+ students, Covid-affected students and students with single parents or orphans across India.
- Applicants must have secured admission in B.Tech., B.E., B.Arch., B.B.A., B.Com., or B.Sc. degrees in India.
- Applicants must have passed Class 12 in the year 2023–24.
- Applicants must have secured 60% marks in Classes 10 and 12 examinations. Exceptions may be considered on a case-by-case basis.
- Annual family income of the applicant from all sources must be less than INR 5,00,000.
Benefits
- 80% of annual course fees up to INR 1,00,000 per year (whichever is less) till the completion of the course will be awarded to the special category* students based on academic performance.
NOTE: Preference will be given to students from special category*.
*Special category: Differently-abled girl students, LGBTQ+ students, Covid-affected students, and students with single parents or orphans.
Documents
The applicants are required to attach the following documents:
- Photo ID Card
- Age-proof (Birth Certificate, Aadhaar Card, Passport, Class 10 school leaving certificate)
- Aadhaar Card (If Aadhaar Card is not available, an equivalent document for proof of address)
- Class 10th and 12th marksheet
- Family Income Certificates or Form 16 of parents/ bank statements of the last six months
- Bank account details of the applicant (or parent)
- Passport-size photograph of the applicant
- Proof of admission or college/university fee receipt for the current academic year
- PwD certificate/Transgender certificate/any other valid certificate
How can you apply?
- Click on the ‘Apply Now’ button below.
- Login to Buddy4Study with your registered ID and land on the ‘Application Form Page’.
- If not registered on Buddy4Study, register at Buddy4Study with your email/mobile/Gmail account.
- You will now be redirected to the ‘Legrand Empowering Scholarship Program 2025-26 (Special Category Application)’ application form page.
- Click on the ‘Start Application’ button to begin the application process.
- Fill in the required details in the online application form.
- Upload relevant documents.
- Accept the ‘Terms and Conditions’ and click on ‘Preview’.
- If all the details filled in by the applicant are correctly showing on the preview screen, click on the ‘Submit’ button to complete the application process.