The State Cabinet on Monday decided to continue the scheme ANWESHA launched in financial year 2015-16 to provide quality education to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students in partnership with urban educational institutions.
The scheme will now be extended to another five years with a financial implication of Rs 569.90 crore, which has already been approved by the Finance Department. In the next five years, as many as 25,000 students will be covered under the scheme and all the students will be kept in ANWESHA hostels managed by the SC and ST Department.
Under the scheme, SC and ST students are admitted every year in Standard-I in different Government, private and Aided English medium schools of repute located in urban areas and provided education till completion of Class-XII.
At present, the programme is being implemented in 177 schools spread over 17 districts and 21,682 students are being benefitted.