Deen Dayal Upadhyay Sparsh Yojana

• for school children to increase the reach of stamp collection called “Philately”.
• Scholarship for Promotion of Aptitude & Research in Stamps as a Hobby.
• Scheme by Ministry of communication’s  Department of Posts .
• Pan India scholarship program for school children.
• A child should be a student of a recognized school within India and the concerned school should have a Philately Club and the candidate should be a member of the Club.
• Philately is the hobby of collection and study of Postage stamps. It also entails the collection, appreciation and research activities on stamps.
• Scholarship will be Rs. 6000/- per annum @ Rs. 500/- per month.
• Every Postal Circle will select a maximum of 40 scholarships representing 10 students each from Standard VI, VII, VIII & IX.
• Deen Dayal Upadhayay
• one of the leaders of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner of the present day Bharatiya Janata Party.
• Upadhyaya conceived the political philosophy Integral Humanism. The philosophy of Integral Humanism advocates the simultaneous and integrated program of the body, mind and intellect and soul of each human being.
• Integral Humanism, which is a synthesis of the material and the spiritual, the individual and the collective
• visualised for India a decentralised polity and self-reliant economy with the village as the base.
• Upadhyaya was convinced that India as an independent nation could not rely upon Western concepts like individualism, democracy, socialism, communism or capitalism & thought that Indian polity after Independence has been raised upon superficial Western foundations and not rooted in the traditions of India’s ancient culture.
• welcomed modern technology but wanted it to be adapted to suit Indian requirements.
• believed in Swaraj
• found dead on 11 February 1968 at Mughal Sarai railway yard
• written a drama Chandragupta Maurya, and later wrote a biography of Shankaracharya. He translated a Marathi biography of Hedgewar, the founder of RSS.
• was found dead on 11 February 1968 at Mughal Sarai railway yard.
• Upadhyaya edited Panchjanya (Weekly) and Swadesh (Daily) from Lucknow.