Haryana Government has doubled the scholarship amount being given to cadets of Sainik Schools at Kunjpura and Rewari. Now, they would get `50,000 annually as scholarship instead of `25,000.
Presiding over a review meeting of functioning of Sainik Schools here on Monday, Chief Minister Manohar lal also gave approval to increase their diet allowance from `25 to `75 per day. With this decision, the cadets of both schools would get benefit of more than `3.62 crore every year.
Principal of Sainik School, Kunjpura, Col YS Parmar and Principal of Sainik School, Rewari, Gp Capt Rajiv Sharma gave presentation of the activities being undertaken by their respective schools.
The Chief Minister said that it is the priority of the government to provide quality education, be it in government schools or private schools. The Sainik Schools could act as inspiration to other schools. Therefore, the Sainik Schools should also invite government schools for visiting their campus as the learning methodology and environment there was different and more disciplined, said he.
During the meeting, a sum of `2.5 crore has been approved for completing the pending works of first phase of Sainik School, Rewari and `10.17 crore for second phase. Apart from this, approval of `23 crore has also been given for construction of hostel building.
The Chief Minister said that the hostel should have been set up at the time when administrative block was set up. He also directed the Public Works (Building and Roads) Department to explore possibilities of alternative systems based on modular design for construction of hostel building.
An approval was also given to fix the income limit of parents for providing scholarships to students. The income limit should be 1.60 lakh, two lakh, 2.5 lakh and three lakh. As many as 656 students are studying in Sainik School, Kunjpura and 468 students in Sainik School, Rewari.