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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Enhancing Opportunities for Education of Minority Communities



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Press Information Bureau Ministry of I&B <pib.kolkata@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:49 PM
Subject: Release...........pt2


Press Information Bureau

Government of India

* * * * * *

Ministry of Minority Affairs

Enhancing Opportunities for Education of Minority Communities

New Delhi: September 21, 2010.

           

The Ministry of Minority Affairs has awarded more than 37 lakh scholarships under various schemes since 2007-08.  As provided in the Prime Minister's New 15 Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities, the Ministry is implementing three scholarship schemes detailed below:

Year

(i)  Pre-matric Scholarship

(ii)  Post-matric Scholarship

  Target

Achievement

Finan-cial Alloca-tion

(Rs.in crore)

Utiliz-ation

(Rs. in crore)

Target

(in lakh)

Achieve-ment

(in lakh)

Finan-cial Alloca-tion

(Rs.in crore)

Utiliza-tion

(Rs.in crore)

07-08

Scheme launched in 2008-09

0.75

0.25

60.00

9.63

08-09

3 lakh

5.13 lakh

79.90

62.21

1.25

1.7 

69.93

70.63

09-10

15 lakh

17.29 lakh

200.00

202.94

3

3.87

150.00

149.79

10-11

20 lakh

7.41 lakh

450.00

198.97*

4

0.69

265.00

105.28**

                    * Including advance grants of Rs.117.85 crore, to State/UTs

                    ** Including advance grants of Rs.58.87 crore, to State/UTs  

Merit-cum-means Scholarship scheme for technical and professional courses: This scheme was launched in 2007-08 and cumulatively 79,435 scholarships have been awarded. During 2009-10, the achievement was 35,982 scholarships against the target of 42,000 scholarships. The target for 2010-11 is 55,000 scholarships against which so far we have released amount for 11,863.

Beside these three scholarship schemes, around 35,000 scholarships have been awarded to meritorious girl students since 2006-07 under the Meritorious Girl's Scholarship Scheme of Maulana Azad Education Foundation (MAEF). During 2009-10, the achievement was 15,070. The target for 2010-11 is 18,000 scholarships.

Under Maulana Azad National Fellowship scheme of the Ministry of Minority Affairs, 755 students have been awarded fellowship (involving Rs. 14.9 crore) through UGC for 2009-10. The amount is currently under distribution and the process for the current year (756 fresh cases involving Rs. 30 crore ) is being initiated. 

 

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