Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan called upon the outstanding students to be firm in choosing their path and move ahead. There will be no dearth of funds for their education. He said that inspiration, hard work and money is needed to move ahead in life. let students do the hard work, money will be arranged by the state government.
Chouhan was addressing the gathering at the Outstanding Students Felicitation Ceremony at the lal Parade ground here on Monday.
Students who obtained more than 75 per cent marks in board exams took part in the ceremony. The Chief Minister got an amount of Rs 25,000 each deposited in their accounts online for purchasing laptops. Chouhan congratulated the students for a bright future, and congratulated the teachers for giving them skillful guidance.
Online funds were provided to about 22,035 outstanding students for purchase of laptops at the ceremony. The amounts of the remaining 66 thousand students will also reach in their accounts soon.
Notably, on the initiative of Chouhan a scheme was started to promote students who have been scoring good marks since year 2009.The number of outstanding students in session 2009-10 was 473. Now in 8 years, this number has increased 47 times to 22.035 in 2017-18. This year total 5,95,505