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Merit-cum-Means Scholarship

Financial help for meritorious students from poor families, so they can complete their professional and technical courses.

160+ MoUs fund about 120 scholarships & awardsSnippets, April 2026

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Give only through IIT Roorkee’s official donation page (iitrdora.iitr.ac.in) or the partner charities listed here. If a request for money reaches you any other way, check with dora.office@iitr.ac.in first.

What your gift funds

The Merit-cum-Means (MCM) scheme gives financial assistance to poor and meritorious students so they can pursue professional and technical courses.

You can set it up as a scholarship, a cash prize or an award, and name it as you wish.

Listed on IIT Roorkee’s Schemes for Promoting Excellence

Our promise to every donor

From IIT Roorkee’s Schemes for Promoting Excellence

100% exemption u/s 80G of the Income Tax Act 1961 on gifts to IIT Roorkee.
Every year, a financial statement: opening amount, interest earned, expenditure and balance.
Every year, the list of beneficiaries of your scheme.
Name the scheme as you wish, in your name or anyone else’s.

How to give

Give through the official pageOnline, by bank transfer, cheque or DD in India, or through a partner charity abroad.
Tell DORA where it should goEmail the DORA office with this cause, the amount and the transaction reference. The button below writes it for you.
Hear back every yearA financial statement and the list of beneficiaries, emailed to you each year.

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Tax benefits

India: 100% exemption u/s 80G of the Income Tax Act 1961.
USA: give through a 501(c)(3) partner charity; your employer may match it.
UK: give through IIT Alumni UK and add Gift Aid.
Elsewhere: foreign citizens give to IIT Roorkee’s FCRA account.

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Named & corporate gifts

Naming a scholarship, award or chair, planning a class gift, or funding through CSR? The DORA office will shape it with you.

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