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Mohan Babu University (MBU) connected Tuesday (January 13, 2026) announced 100% sports scholarships for students funny successful sporting events for the world twelvemonth 2026-2027.
The assistance programme volition initially screen cricket, basketball, and badminton, offering broad enactment including academics, nonrecreational coaching, training, nutrition and infrastructure, guided by apical coaches from India and abroad.
The announcement was made astatine the recently-held 33rd Annual Sports Day of Sree Vidyanikethan acquisition radical astatine A Rangampet campus, with MP (Rajya Sabha) K. Laxman and Goa Minister for Transport Mauvin Godinho taking portion arsenic the guests.
Calling sports a ‘core pillar of our acquisition philosophy’, MBU Pro-Chancellor Vishnu Manchu said that the acquisition group’s agelong word imaginativeness is to nurture athletes, who could correspond India astatine the highest planetary platforms, including the Olympics.
He said that the 100% sports scholarships would region barriers and make an ecosystem wherever students could prosecute high-performance sports alongside rigorous academics.
The celebrations were marked by ceremonial marches, sporting demonstrations, taste performances. The assemblage besides announced to make a endowment excavation for sportspersons by the twelvemonth 2036.
Meanwhile, the IEEE subdivision students of MBU received the ‘Outstanding Student Branch 2025’ grant astatine the IEEE India Council Awards relation held recently. The grant came successful designation of the branch’s accordant performance, including its publication to SAMARTHA 2025, a 36-hour national-level hackathon organised by IEEE.
