Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Poor students to get books under RTE

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The Uttar Pradesh government will bear the cost of books and study material for about 30,000 students of the economically weaker sections enrolled in UP schools under the Right to Education Act. Under the new scheme, expected to be announced within the next fortnight, the government will spend an amount of Rs 5,000 per student in an academic year.

The scheme, which assumes political significance in the light of the impending polls in Uttar Pradesh, was recommended to the state government, sources told TOI, by activist and Magsaysay awardee Sandeep Pandey. After a presentation on how it would benefit students from the economically weaker sections, the scheme was sanctioned by chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and primary education minister Ahmed Hasan.

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