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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