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Cabinet approves continuation of Scholarship Schemes for minority students

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the proposal for Continuation of Pre-Matric, Post Matric and Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship Schemes for the students belonging to the six notified Minority Communities at a total cost of Rs. 5338.32 crore for period up to 2019-20. This will benefit 70 lakh students annually.

Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, CCEA, has approved proposal for continuation of Pre-Matric, Post Matric and Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship Schemes for the students belonging to the Minority Communities during 2017-18 to 2019-20.

Mr Prasad said, the schemes, at a total cost of 5338.32 crore rupees, will be implemented through the National Scholarship Portal.

Pre-Matric Scholarship Scheme is to encourage parents from minority communities to send their school going children (from Class I to X) to school, lighten their financial burden on school education and sustain their efforts to support their children to complete school education while the objective of the Post Matric Scholarship Scheme is to provide financial assistance to the poor and meritorious minority students with better opportunities for higher education, increase their rate of attainment in higher education and enhance their employability in organized sector. Similarly, the objective of the Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship Scheme is to provide financial assistance to the poor and meritorious minority students to enable them to pursue professional and technical courses at under Graduate and post Graduate levels leading to upliftment of the socio economic conditions of the minority communities.