The Railway Women's Welfare Central Organization (RWWCO) has distributed merit scholarships to the wards of non-gazetted employees working in Ministry of Railways.
The purpose of sanction of such scholarships was to encourage railway children to excel well in education especially technical education courses like B.Tech, B.E., M.B.B.S., and also other forms of higher education.
This year, 38 such scholarships were distributed to beneficiaries by Rashmi Mital, President of the RWWCO, at a function held here in March.
The RWWCO is the apex body of the chain of women's welfare organisations spread over all Indian Railways engaged in the task of welfare of railwaymen and their families through various need-based socio/welfare activities.
The organization started its activities in 1962 after Indo-China War, and while the primary concern of the organisation is the welfare of Railway employees and their families, it has always promoted environmental awareness, family welfare drives, an end to disturbances on the borders or to take preventive action to ward off or lessen the impact of natural calamities.
It is one of the major voluntary organisations in the country today.
