Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday said that Government is filling up more than 15,000 vacancies to clear the backlog of posts meant of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes in the State. These posts included 8781 of Scheduled Castes and 6260 of Backward Classes and would be advertised next month.
Addressing a gathering after laying the foundation stones of Dr. Ambedkar Bhawan and Hostel at Kurukshetra, Hooda also announced to give discretionary grant of Rs.21 lakh for construction of the building.
Calling upon the people to provide better opportunities of education to their wards, the Chief Minister said that today world is shrinking at a very fast pace. Only those society, state or nation could progress in present era which would lead in education. He said Haryana is the first state which had implemented a unique scholarship scheme for Scheduled Castes students under which children are getting scholarship right from the first class. Presently, more than 19.70 lakh students are getting benefit of the scheme.
Hooda also referred to the announcements made by him at Gohana Rally, and said that a sum of Rs.400 crore would be spent to repair and renovate of chaupals of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes in urban and rural areas. Similarly, a one time settlement scheme would be implemented to waive off entire amount of interest on loan taken by members belonging to SC and BC who have taken loans under different schemes from Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation.