Hyderabad, March 27 -- Science Academies' Education Programme has sanctioned a funding of Rs. 17,76,000 to the Skill Development Centre, School of Life Sciences (SLS), University of Hyderabad (UoH), to conduct a "summer school" for underprivileged students.

An additional amount of Rs. 10 lakh is also expected to meet the expenditure for consumables, the University said in a release here on Wednesday.

Conducting summer schools will help to enhance the skills of these students.

For this programme, the under privileged doctoral students must follow the conditions including must have completed post-graduation in a COLLEGE located in a rural area,; enrolled in a doctoral program in any area of biology in a UNIVERSITY located in a rural area; ...