UP Scholarship: Yogi transfers scholarship worth 458.66 crore

NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has done an online transfer of scholarship worth Rs 458.66 crore to 12.17 lakh, meritorious students, under the Purv Dasham Dashamottar Chhatravriti Yojana Scholarship Scheme 2021-22.

पूर्वदशम/दशमोत्तर छात्रवृत्ति योजना 2021-22 के अंतर्गत 12,17,631 मेधावी विद्यार्थियों को ₹458.66 करोड़ की छात्रवृत्ति का ऑनलाइन हस्तांतरण... https://t.co/EGur7qLkTN

— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) December 2, 2021

“Online transfer of scholarship of Rs 458.66 crores to 12,17,631 meritorious students under Purv Dasham Dashamottar Chhatravriti Yojana Scholarship Scheme 2021-22…”, Yogi tweeted from his official Twitter handle.

पूर्ववर्ती सरकार में जितने विद्यार्थियों को स्कॉलरशिप मिलती थी, उससे 40 लाख से अधिक बच्चों को पिछले साढ़े 04 वर्षों में @BJP4UP की सरकार ने स्कॉलरशिप योजना के साथ जोड़ने का कार्य किया है।

— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) December 2, 2021

Previously, in Uttar Pradesh, the Yogi government has awarded scholarships to more than 20 lakh students belonging to minority communities under various scholarships schemes. The government claims to have doled out scholarships to around 20.16 lakh students in the last four-and-a-half years, reported India Today .4

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To get the youth educated, Rs 3,000 per year is disbursed per student by the Minority Welfare Department in Uttar Pradesh under the state-funded pre-matric scholarship scheme. The post-matric scholarship amount is decided class-wise and course-wise for minority students.

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Recently, we have witnessed one of the oldest and largest scholarship schemes to support SC students through higher education, Post Matric Scholarship to Scheduled Caste students consistently getting insufficient budget allocation and underutilisation of outlays. It is one of the most important centrally-sponsored scholarship programmes targeting the historically marginalised Dalit communities.