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Minority Scholarships Awarded To Over 20 Lakh Students, Claims UP Government
Striving hard for the development of minorities in the state to realise the vision of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’, the Yogi government has awarded scholarships to more than 20 lakh students belonging to minority communities under various scholarships schemes.Ensuring that every eligible student gets benefited from the programme, the government has doled out scholarships to around 20,16,076 students in the last four-and-a-half years.
Pre-matric and post-matric scholarships
Pushing the youth towards attaining education, under the state-funded pre-matric scholarship scheme, Rs 3,000 per year is disbursed per student by the Minority Welfare Department in Uttar Pradesh.
For the post-matric scholarship, the scholarship money is decided class-wise and course-wise for minority students.
These scholarships were awarded from the fiscal year 2017-18 to FY 2020-2021 on the basis of need-cum-merit criterion in view of the financial status of the family of the minority applicant.
More than 8.5 lakh students received scholarships in last two years
According to year-wise details, about 3,16, 569 students were conferred scholarships during the fiscal year 2020-21.
Likewise, around 5,41,713 students were given scholarships during the year 2019-2020.
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