Bicolanos urged anew to join GSIS Scholarship Program

11 scholarship slots open for Bicol region

By Marlon A. Loterte

Wednesday 6th of June 2012

LEGAZPI CITY, June 6 (PIA) -- All regular members of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) in the region are encouraged to join the revised GSIS Scholarship Program for SY 2012 – 2013 on or before the deadline set this June 30, said GSIS Legazpi Branch head Leon Maria Fajardo.

“We would like to seek your assistance in enjoining members under your coverage to join the GSP SY 2012-2013,” Fajardo said addressing the authorized officers of various agencies concerned in the implementation of the said program.

Under the program, 200 scholarship slots will be distributed nationwide based on the number of GSIS members in each region. For Bicol, 11 slots are open for application for the region.

“All regular GSIS members with premium payments for the last six months and are currently employed in government, with a salary grade of 24 or below, are eligible to nominate a scholar for the GSP. The nominated scholar must be a child of the member who is an incoming college freshman in any of the schools accredited by GSIS,” Fajardo detailed.

In this region, Catanduanes State College, Camarines Sur State Agricultural College and Bicol University are the schools included in the list.

Karina Constantina-David, GSIS Board of Trustee member, said during the recently held Dialogue with Public Sector Unions here that the program will prioritize government employees with lower salary.

“The lower the salary grade, the higher the possibility of being chosen for the scholarship grant,” David said.

Each scholarship grantee will receive a maximum amount of P20,000 per semester for tuition and miscellaneous fees and P2,000 monthly allowance.

To date, GSIS has awarded a total of 1,371 scholarship grants since the inception of the program in 1998. 404 of the said grantees are active scholars currently enrolled in various colleges and universities nationwide as of April this year. (MAL/SAA-PIA 5, Albay)