Incentive scheme for meritorious students implemented in year 2009-10 is yielding encouraging results. Popularity of the scheme can be gauged by the fact that number of meritorious students has increased about 22 times from 475 to 10 thousand 61 in 6 years.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan distributed bank drafts worth Rs25 thousand each and letters of citation to these students at a function at lal Parade Ground here on Sunday. School Education Minister Paras Jain, Tribal Welfare Minister Gyan Singh and Minister of State for School Education Deepak Joshi were also present. With incentive money, students can purchase computer or laptop.
The State Government had launched the scheme in year 2009-10. Then Rs25 thousand incentive money was given to class XII students of Government schools having secured over 85 per cent marks for purchasing computer. Following announcement of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, students of private schools were also included in the scheme for last 3 years. Till date, 29 thousand 31 students benefited from the scheme.
large scale preparations were made for the function which was held at 3 pm at lal Parade Ground. In view of monsoon, arrangement of waterproof tent were made. Parents of 10 thousand 61 awardee students also participated in the function. Arrangements for lodging and food of students and their parents were also made. At the function, 5 All-India merit holder students of IIT-JEE were also felicitated. They included Satwat Jagwani of Satna, Janak Agrawal and Mukesh Pareek of Indore, topper among girls Kriti Tiwari and topper among disabled students Shantunu Dube.