Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday took a jibe at the opposition parties, saying the previous governments discriminated against Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students by stopping them. The Chief Minister on Thursday targeted the opposition during a function organized to give scholarships to meritorious students.
Yogi Adityanath-led government gave scholarships to 12.70 lakh meritorious students. According to government data, a total of Rs 458 crore was directly transferred to the accounts of students.
Interacting with the meritorious students of the state, CM Adityanath said, “Our government has given scholarships to at least 40 lakh meritorious students in the last four years.
“Previous governments used to discriminate between students. The previous government had stopped scholarships for SC and ST students in 2016-17,” Yogi Adityanath said.
While interacting with the students, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also said, ” coronavirus Pandemic and lockdown, a large number of schools, colleges and polytechnic institutes were not functioning properly. Due to the delay in the admission process, the scholarship was sent separately.
The CM further said that the scholarship will help the students to pursue their higher education. The Chief Minister said, “The government is happy that meritorious students will be able to complete their higher education with scholarship money.”
Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government wants all the students of the state to get scholarships before the end of the year. The UP government is distributing the scholarship in a phased manner. The first phase of scholarship distribution was held on 2nd October. In the first phase, around 1.5 lakh students were awarded scholarships.
Soon after the first phase, Yogi Adityanath had directed the education department to distribute scholarships among the remaining students by the end of November, but due to several technical issues, the target of distributing scholarships has been set by December end.
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