Attacking the Samajwadi Party, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath revealed that under the Akhilesh government, scholarships of Scheduled caste, Scheduled Tribe students and children were stopped.
“The previous government used to discriminate before providing scholarships to children and students. They stopped providing scholarships, particularly to the children belonging to the SC/ST community. When we came to power in 2017, we learnt that in 2016-17, only scholarships of SC, ST children were stopped. Our government immediately restored scholarships to these students,” asserted Yogi while transferring scholarships of Rs 458.66 crore to more than 12.17 lakh students online in Lucknow on Thursday.
Attacking SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, the chief minister said that the previous regime played with the lives and future of children to satisfy their political interests.
“In the last four and a half years, our government has enrolled more than 40 lakh children in schools across the state,” he said.
While interacting with students from different districts, Yogi congratulated them and said, “Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of schools, colleges, polytechnics could not start their sessions. Due to the late admission of students, the scholarship is being delayed. On October 2 also, the state government had sent the scholarship installments to about 57 lakh students.”
The chief minister asked officials to complete the admission process in various educational institutions across the state by December 30 and send scholarship amounts to the accounts of eligible students. He said that the students should not face any hindrance in reimbursement of fees or in purchasing any kind of course material for themselves.
Yogi also announced that the government was working on an action plan for the distribution of smartphones and tablets to students in various universities, engineering institutes, polytechnics, ITIs, nursing, para-medical and various other courses of undergraduate and post-graduate levels.
The chief minister said that a large number of children who trained under Abhyudaya Coaching had secured places in various competitive examinations.
“The government is working to provide equal and immense opportunities to the students in the state itself, as a result of which several students who got themselves enrolled for Abhyudaya Coaching had achieved great results in competitive examinations,” the chief minister said.
Speaking on the Abhyudaya Coaching scheme, Yogi said that there was a need to take it forward in all 75 districts.
“There is a need to connect education with technology to prepare the students for competitive examinations of the state. Abhyudaya Coaching scheme must cater to the needs of every child,” he said.