Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and National President of BJP, Member of Parliament Amit Shah will present sanction letters to the selected students under the Mukya Mantri Medhavi Vidhyarthi Yojana in a programme being organised at lal Parade ground on August 20. The programme will be held at 12 pm.
Minister of State for Technical Education (Independent Charge), labour and School Education Deepak Joshi has informed that about 32,000 students have registered under the scheme. As many as 15,000 students of various districts will participate in the programme.
Besides, Joshi said that benefit of Mukhyamantri Medhavi Vidhyarthi Yojana is being extended to the students who have passed 12th examination from Board of Secondary Education securing 75 per cent marks and above and 85 per cent marks and above from CBSE in the year 2016 or later.
To avail benefit of the scheme, annual income of the parents should be less than Rs 6 lakh.
Adhaar number of students is also mandatory under the scheme. Such students who do not possess adhaar number are required to present adhaar number within three months.
Students securing up to 50,000 rank in JEE Mains Examination will get benefit of the scheme on getting admissions in Government and private engineering colleges.
Full fee of Government College (Except Mess Fee and Caution Money) will be provided by the government.
As regard to fee of Private college. A sum of Rs 1.50 lakh or actual fee (Prescribed by Fee Committee Except Mess Fee and Caution Money) whichever is less will be borne by the Government.
It has been clarified that if admission is given on the basis of separate entrance examination in any engineering college and if students secure rank under the 50,000 rank then they will be entitled for benefits under the scheme. Government colleges include all Government aided colleges and all the Government colleges.
Benefit of the scheme can also be derived by the students getting admissions through National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) for MBBS/BDS courses in any Government medical/ dental college of the State or any private medical/dental college of Madhya Pradesh Fee payable will be paid by the State Government.
Such institutions under the NEET or Government of India which gives admissions on the basis of their own examinations are included in the scheme.
Fee payable for the course of the students getting admissions in any National law University of the country after 12th examination will be borne by the State Government.
Moreover, fee towards all the graduation programme or integrated post-graduate programme being conducted in institutions of Government of India situated in the State will be paid by the State Government.