Tribal Welfare and School Education Minister Kedar Kashyap distributed merit scholarship worth Rs 3.45 lakh for the wards of Tendupatta collectors here.
The parents of 17 meritorious students received the cheques from the Minister during a programme organised at Narayanpur district headquarters. As a part of encouragement scheme for the children of Tendupatta collectors, Kashyap gave away scholarship cheques to the parents of nine students who passed class 12th and eight students who cleared class 10th examination.
The students of class 12th are provided a scholarship of Rs 25,000 each for passing the examination with merit while the students of class 10th are provided scholarship of Rs 15,000 each for passing the examination with merit under the scheme, officials said.
The students who received the scholarship for class 12th included Malti, Bholanath, Mukesh, Ritesh, Ginjo, Chandrakant, Sanjeet Reddy and Sangeeta Dhruv. Similarly, the students of class 10th who received the scholarship were laxmi, lakhan, Sewanti, Rajau, Sukhram, Kishor and Manisha Korram, officials informed.
Kashyap also gave away cheques of Rs 10,000 each to the Sanskriti Mandali of Sakdibeda, Khadibahar, Dumertaria and Belgaon besides Mandra dancers groups of Cheribeda, Khargaon, Boravand and Koliyari under the Tribal Cultural Preservation and Development Fund.
BJP State President Dharamlal Kaushik, BJP State General Secretary (Organisation) Rampratap Singh, Bijapur MlA Mahesh Gagda, Chairman of Zila Panchayat Biselram Nag, Collector Tamansingh Sonwani, SP Amit Kamble, CEO of Zila Panchayat Deepak Soni and Divisional Forest Officer SP Paikra besides a number of officers of the district administration were present on the occasion.