OD-EDUCATION-ASSISTANCE

Odisha announces cash help to higher education students of

under-privileged family

Bhubaneswar, Jan 11 PTI) Odisha government Friday

decided to provide financial assistance to the children of

under privileged families to pursue higher education,

officials said.

Under the new Financial Assistance Scheme, students

of under privileged class will be provided Rs 20,000 annually

for pursuing both graduate and post-graduate courses.

In order to avail the new scheme, the beneficiary

student should belong to HIV/AIDS affected family, parents

suffering non-curable diseases, landless or homeless family,

child of a single mother, women headed family in case of

non-earning spouse.

A decision in this regard was made at a meeting

presided over by Higher Education Secretary B P Sethi here.

Though the Department of Higher Education has

implemented various schemes to make higher education inclusive

and to increase the gross enrolment ratio, the government

decided to start a new one for under students of privileged

families.

There are programmes like E-Medhabruti, Kalinga Sikhya

Sathi Yojana and Green Passage to provide free education to

orphan students pursuing Plus II to post-graduate education.

The new assistance scheme will be limited to the

duration of the course and will be given each year till

completion of the course, Sethi said adding that the

department has listed eligibility criteria for applying under

the scheme.

The student should have enrolled for under-graduate

and post-graduate courses on regular mode from recognized

colleges, institutions, universities in the state.

And income from all sources of the family to which

student belongs, should not be more than Rs 1 lakh per annum,

he said adding that the financial assistance will be given

through bank accounts.

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