Write an application to your Principal requesting him to sanction you books and stationery from the Students' Aid Fund.
Formal Letter Writing.
8C, Sonia Apartments,
Mango colony,
M.G. Road,
Dharavi,
Mumbai - 400 016.
13th February, 2014
To,
The Principal,
The General English High School,
Dadar (E),
Mumbai – 400 028.
Dear Sir,
I am ABC, a student of the X A of your school. My Roll No. is 17, I am an orphan being supported by my uncle. He is a clerk in a private firm. He draws an insufficient salary of Rs. 5000/- per month. He has to support a family of six persons. He has two school going children. It is so kind of him to provide me food and clothes. I know that it is beyond his means to buy books and stationery for my new class.
I am very fond of reading. I always stand first in my annual examination. My class teacher speaks well of me. Moreover, I am captain of my school table tennis team. I have been a freeship - holder throughout my school career. You have also been kind enough, Sir, to grant me a full fee concession. But I regret to inform you that I have not been able to buy books this year. I have come to know through my class teacher that there is a provision in the school to help the deserving students out of the Students' Aid Fund. I would, therefore, like to request you to help me out of the Students' Aid Fund.
I shall be very much thankful to you if you do the needful.
Your most obedient pupil,
ABC
Difficult Words
- Sanction: To give official permission or approval for something.
- Stationery: Materials (like paper, pens, and envelopes) used for writing or typing.
- Orphan: A child whose parents are dead.
- Insufficient: Not enough; inadequate.
- Freeship-holder: A student who receives a scholarship that pays for their tuition or school fees.
- Concession: A reduction in the usual price of something, or a right to do or have something that is given by a government or other authority.
- Regret: To feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over something that has happened or been done.
- Provision: The action of providing or supplying something for use; an amount or thing supplied or provided.
- Deserving: Worthy of being treated in a particular way, typically of being given assistance.
- Needful (do the needful): An idiomatic expression, common in Indian English, meaning to do what is necessary or required.
- Obedient: Willing to comply with orders and requests; submissive to another's will.
- Pupil: A student in school.