Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath issues scholarships to pre-and post-matric students
Issuing scholarships worth Rs 148 crore to 4.6 lakh pre- and post-matric students during a programme on Saturday, CM said: “Scholarships for students belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes were not issued in 2016-17. When our govt was formed in 2017, we gave scholarships for 2016-17 and 2017-18 together. The earlier govt provided only Rs 2,900 crore in scholarships. Today, our govt is giving Rs 6,200 crore in scholarships, more than double the earlier amount. Highlighting how his govt was different from the previous one, CM said that earlier only 60-70 children out of 100 benefited from scholarships as their money was siphoned off.
CM said that there was no substitute for hard work and gave the example of ministers present in the programme. Chairperson of the SC/ST Commission, Baijnath Rawat, is a former MLA,” he said. CM added that there was no paucity of funds for scholarships and said that students who had been left out should apply at the earliest. “Now, the funds are sent directly into a student’s bank account, an advantage of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ’s zero balance bank account push,” he said.
Lucknow: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath accused the previous Samajwadi Party govt of having pocketed funds meant for scholarships and alleged that the ‘Samajwadi syndicate’ neither encouraged the youth nor provided scholarships on time. The then govt pocketed this money. He described the struggles of cabinet minister Om Prakash Rajbhar, and related how minister of state Sanjeev Gond used to wander through forests and then realised that he should not run after a job but raise the voice of tribal communities. “Asim Arun served as ADG and police commissioner of Kanpur as an IPS officer while Danish Azad Ansari and Narendra Kashyap were engaged in social work. He also encouraged the children to spend funds on education, and not on food and other things, asking them to read autobiographies of great personalities, informative and religious books.
Next month, we will give scooties to 50,000 meritorious girls. Before 2017, the ‘Saifai syndicate’ had no time for anything except looting and plundering.
But now, UP has moved on the path of prosperity,” he said. Now, youth are benefiting from the Mukhyamantri Abhyudaya Coaching. These people thought only of their own families.
“Earlier, youth used to go to other states to prepare for JEE and NEET.