Over 1.5 lac girl students all set to have bicycles Under Mai Bhago Viddya scheeme Rs 47 crore to be spent this year Chandigarh, August 5 : Over 1.5 lac girl students of Punjab are all set to ride on new bicycles to their school with Punjab government finalizing the plan to distribute these bicycles with in 3 months. The state government has already set aside Rs.47 crore for Mai Bhaggo Scheme under which all girl students of government schools of Class 9th to 12th would be gifted bicycles by the Punjab government. The Punjab Government has already distributed over 1 lakh 11 thousand and 49 bi-cycles to the girl students studying in class 11th and 12th with the cost of Rs. 30 crore last year. Disclosing this here today an official spokesperson of Punjab government said that Mai Bhaggo Viddya Scheme is the dream project of Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal. He said that this project was envisaged specially to promote education among the girls and to diminish the school dropout rate among girl students of the state. He said that this scheme has been successful as the school dropout rate among the girl child has considerably decreased. He said that the Punjab Government has decided to continue this scheme and the girls studding in class 9th to 12th would be covered. He said that to provide the bi-cycles to the girls from 9th to 12th Budget of Rs. 47 crore has been earmarked by the Punjab government for this financial year. He said that instructions have been issued to the district education officers to prepare the lists of the girls students from class 9th to 12th so that bi-cycles to the remaining could be provided as the earliest. He said that the Punjab government has also rolled out several other welfare schemes for the overall development of the students studding in the government schools. He said that pre matric, post matric scholarships also been extended to the needy and meritorious students.....
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:38:30 +0000
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