Kathmandu: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the government shall monitor whether the students from impoverished communities are getting the scholarship grant money provided to them.
He said, through his social networking site Facebook, today that this topic would be followed up on at all local levels.
PM Oli stated that the government has been providing Rs 600 million as grant in the budget annually for this purpose, according to which students (Grade 6-10) from poor families studying in community schools get Rs 18,000 per head per annum and Rs 24,000 per head per annum for studying Science.
“Students from 22 enlisted castes and the non-residential students of the marginalized classes studying at the community schools in the remote and other areas are being provided with between Rs 1,000 per student to Rs 3,500 per student annually as scholarship grant. One million and 550 thousand students throughout the country will receive scholarship under the non-residential scholarship. Rs 500 million has been allocated for this purpose,” PM Oli stated in his Facebook post.
Similarly, he said that residential scholarship at the rate of Rs 5,000 per student per month is provided to 11,400 students of the seven targeted groups including those belonging to the communities that are backward in terms of education as well as the students of most remote mountainous districts.
“The above-stated scholarship amount has been transferred as the conditional fiscal grant, calculating the cost amount per student at every local level. The work procedure related to this has been kept in the website of the Ministry of Education,” Prime Minister Oli said. (RSS)
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