PM Oli urges for monitoring whether or not students got scholarships at all local levels

Kathmandu: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the government shall monitor whether the students from impoverished communities are getting the scholarship grant money provided to them.

He said, through his social networking site Facebook, today that this topic would be followed up on at all local levels. PM Oli stated that the government has been providing 600 million rupees as a grant in the budget annually for this purpose, according to which students (Grades 6-10) from poor families studying in community schools get Rs 18,000 per head per annum and 24,000 rupees per head per annum for studying Science.

‘Students from 22 enlisted castes and the non-residential students of the marginalized classes studying at the community schools in remote and other areas are being provided with between 1,000 rupees per student to 3,500 rupees per student annually as scholarship grants. One million and 550 thousand students throughout the country will receive scholarships under the non-residential scholarship. 500 million rupees has been allocated for this purpose,’ PM Oli stated in his Facebook post.

Similarly, he said that residential scholarship at the rate of 5,000 rupees per student per month is provided to 11,400 students of the seven targeted groups including those belonging to the communities that are backward in terms of education as well as the students of most remote mountainous districts.

‘The above-stated scholarship amount has been transferred as the conditional fiscal grant, calculating the cost amount per student at every local level. The work procedure related to this has been kept on the website of the Ministry of Education,’ Prime Minister Oli said.

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