Girl students in Chhattisgarh will now be entitled for free education in Government polytechnic institutes as well. The State Government has decided to provide exemption in tution fee to even those girl students who have taken admission in academic session 2014-15 and those who are presently pursuing courses in these institutes.
living up to his promises in poll manifesto and Budget announcement, Chief Minister Raman Singh has issued the order regarding provision of free education facility to girls in all Government colleges of the State, including the Government engineering colleges as well. At the same time, Government polytechnic institutes of the State will be providing exemption in tution fee to all the girl students.
Presently, about 1,400 girl students are pursuing education in 23 polytechnic institutes of Chhattisgarh. With coming into effect of this latest decision of the State Government, each girl student of these polytechnic institutes will be entitled to avail the exemption in tution fees of Rs 5,000. Officials of Directorate of Technical Education informed that the State Government has taken the decision of opening five new polytechnic institutes in State in this academic session.
With that, the girl students of State will be able to avail free education in total 28 Government polytechnic institutes of Chhattisgarh. On the directives of Technical Education Minister, Premprakash Pandey, the Technical Education Department has issued orders in this context. The Minister said that this decision of the State Government will largely benefit and encourage those girls of State, who are interested in pursuing a career in the field of Engineering.