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Stipend for SC students in Haryana schools
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Friday.
NEW DELHI: The Haryana Government has decided to implement a number of innovative schemes involving an investment of Rs.485 crore to enhance the educational status of children belonging to Scheduled Castes and those from below poverty line families.
Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said his government was implementing a unique scheme of giving monthly stipend and one-time allowance to all SC students studying in government schools in the State.
“Under the scheme, which has been implemented at a cost of Rs.280 crore, the amount of monthly stipend would be Rs.100 for boys and Rs.150 for girls studying in Classes I to V. It would be Rs.150 and Rs.200 for boys and girls, respectively, in Classes VI to VIII. The amount would be Rs.200 for boys and Rs.300 for girls in Classes IX to XII. We have recently extended this scheme for children from BPL families. In all, it will benefit about 13 lakh children,” he added.
Mr. Hooda said all SC students studying in colleges would get Rs.2,000 a year as book allowance. In addition, they would also get a monthly stipend of Rs.1,000.
Stating that his government was observing 2008 as the “Year of Education”, the Chief Minister pointed out that the number of seats in technical institutes had been raised from 33,000 to 52,000 during his tenure, and would be further increased to one lakh by 2010.
In the past three years, he said, 186 technical institutes had been opened in Haryana. An additional 50 private engineering colleges will be added this year.
Similar proposals received by the State Government may double the number of MBA institutes.
“With the largest of these additions likely to take place in Faridabad, Sonepat and Panipat, our government’s expansion of technical education infrastructure is expected to have a significant bearing on students in Delhi and the National Capital Region,” Mr. Hooda said.
“We have already set up North India’s first Mahila Vishwavidyalaya at Khanpur Kalan in Sonepat. The Central Government has sanctioned the setting up of India’s first Defence University in NCR,” he added.
To bring world class educational and research institutions in Haryana, Rajiv Gandhi Education City will be set up over about 2,000 acres at Kundli. Those setting up their units there would have to reserve 25 per cent of the seats for students from Haryana.
On the issue of setting up a new Indian Institute of Management at Rohtak, the Chief Minister said: “The Union HRD Ministry had written to us a month ago informing that one IIM had been allotted to Haryana and had sought recommendations on site selection. We have identified the land, which we are offering free of cost.”
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