Disabled students will also be provided laptops and tricycles under the Chief Minister’s Disabled Education Incentive Scheme. Disabled students of Class IX who have passed with minimum 50 per cent marks will be benefitted under the scheme. Giving this information Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Gopal Bhargav said that this scheme will benefit about one thousand disabled students.
Under this scheme run by Department of Panchayat and Social Justice, vision impaired, hearing impaired, students with bone deformities and mentally retarded students with minimum 50 per cent marks in Class IX and those who have been admitted in Class X or in ITI will be benefitted. On taking admission in ITI, the disabled students who have taken admission in courses related to computer operator, programming assistant or computer will be given laptops.
Students with bone deformities and who have passed Class X and are taking admission in graduate courses and whose 60 per cent or more body below the waist will be provided motor tricycles. It has been made clear in the scheme that the beneficiaries will be provided this facility on one time admission.
Besides, Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Gopal Bhargav will inaugurate a two-day workshop on promotion of digital transaction and taxation in gram panchayats at WAlMI on Tuesday at 10 am. Minister of State for Panchayat and Rural Development Vishwas Sarang will be special guest. Subject experts will impart training to around 200 panchayat representatives of 5 districts at the workshop.
Director, Panchayat Raj Shamimuddin told that the Panchayati Raj Ministry of Government of India is making efforts for the empowerment of the panchayats in the Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan. This special workshop will be organised in this series. On the first day of the workshop on July 24, panchayats will be informed about the process of mandatory and alternative tax imposition and recovery under taxation process besides transaction process and technical information of UPI, USSD, AEPS, POS, Mobiliwallets, BHIM Ape under digital transaction.
On the second day on July 25, representatives of the best panchayats of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat state will give a presentation and experts from Central Bank of India, SVlC Conveyor and IT experts will address the workshop.