The Gujarat government Tuesday
widened benefits offered to students from the non-reserved
category by raising annual income limits and providing more
assistance in terms of educational loans.
To avail benefits of schemes offered by the Gujarat
Unreserved Educational and Economical Development Corporation,
the annual income limit has been raised from Rs 3 lakh to Rs
4.5 lakh, Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said.
The state-run corporation was set up last year to
provide financial assistance to students from non-reserved
categories, including help for tuition, coaching, food and
competitive exam preparations.
It also helps students from unreserved category for
education, employment, study abroad, and for self-employment.
Also, to avail up loans of up to Rs 15 lakh to study
abroad, the annual income limit of the student's kin has been
raised from Rs 4.5 lakh to Rs 6 lakh, he said.
The loan, which was earlier provided only to pursue
medical education in foreign countries, will now be given to
students to pursue any post-graduate course or higher
programmes abroad, he added.
Patel said the scope of Rs 10-lakh loan provided to
pursue medical and technical education in institutes in
Gujarat has been further extended.
Now, students can avail loan facility even for
admission to institutes outside Gujarat, Patel said, adding
that, additionally, students can avail educational loans to
study in national institutions like IIM, IIT, NID, NIRMA, NIFT
among others.
The corporation was set up last year to counter
demands made by Patidar community under the leadership of
Hardik Patel to provide assistance to 58 castes in the states
that are not entitled to any reservation benefits.
The state government had last year announced several
schemes to benefit students from this category by offering
assistance in terms of jobs and education.
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