chandigarh punjab finance minister parminder singh dhindsa on wednesday added a nobel touch to his budget by introducing a scholarship in the name of punjabs nobel laureate hargobind khorana for brilliant students the scheme will provide financial assistance to brilliant children studying in government schools those who get 80 or more marks in matriculation examination will be given an annual assistance of rs 30000 for their twoyear senior secondary education the fm has provided rs 8 crore for the scheme khorana was a biochemist who shared the 1968 nobel prize for medicine with marshall w nirenberg and robert w holley for research that helped to show how the nucleotides in nucleic acids which carry the genetic code of the cell control the cells synthesis of proteins khorana was born in raipur village now in pakistan in undivided punjab in 1922