Centre planning residential schools for SC girls: Gehlot
CHANDIGARH: The NDA government will introduce a centrally sponsored scheme of residential schools for scheduled caste (SC) girls studying in Class 6 to 12, Union social justice and empowerment minister Thawar Chand Gehlot said on Friday.
Speaking at a regional conference of social welfare ministers of Haryana, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Union Territory (UT) Chandigarh, organised under the aegis of the Union ministry of social justice and empowerment here,
Gehlot said 70% seats will be reserved for SC girls and the remaining seats will be open to BPL girls of other categories.
The residential schools will be opened in educationally backward districts.
Similarly, he said, Rashtriya Vayoshree Yojana for senior citizens is also being implemented. These schemes will be based on ‘first come-first serve’ basis. He urged the officers to send the suggestions and plans on these schemes at the earliest.
Appreciating the Haryana government’s initiative of making provision for self-generating scholarship forms along with online admission to postmatriculation classes for Scheduled Caste (SC) students, Gehlot urged other states to follow this practice.
Gehlot urged the ministers and other officers of all the states to prepare a report of financial assistance being given by all national financial corporations as well as others schemes and send it to his ministry within a month.
Union minister of state for social justice and empowerment Vijay Sampla, Haryana minister of state for social justice and empowerment Krishan Kumar Bedi, Himachal Pradesh social justice and empowerment minister Dhani Ram Shandil, Punjab minister for welfare of scheduled castes and backward classes Sadhu Singh Dharamsot were also present in the meeting.
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