The
Union Ministry of Minority Affairs is up accord educational empowerment
to minority communities by implementing pre-matric, post-matric and
merit-cum-means based scholarship schemes for them.
As
per Press Information Bureau, the ministry has provided this
information, saying that the post-matric scholarship scheme is meant to
encourage students to pursue technical and vocational courses in
Industrial Training Institutes/ Industrial Training Centres by granting
higher amount of scholarships.
The
Merit-cum-means based scholarship scheme would encourage students to
pursue professional and technical courses as under this scheme, students
getting enrolled in reputed yet listed institutes will be reimbursed
with full course fee.
Also,
minority scholars will be endowed with Maulana Azad National
Fellowships to pursue higher and professional courses at M Phil and Ph D
levels.
Apart
from scholarships, the ministry has also come up with Multi-Sectoral
Development Programme (MsDP) that will ensure necessary infrastructure
for education and skill development in the identified minority
concentration areas. Under MsDP, 117 ITIs, 44 polytechnics, 645 hostels,
1092 school buildings, and 20656 additional class rooms have been
sanctioned so far.
To
ensure suitable employment for minority youths, the ministry has turned
up with a scheme -- 'Seekho aur Kamao', under which training is
imparted to them for upgrading their skills in various modern/
traditional occupations.
The
ministry has also introduced a faculty development project called
‘Nalanda' for minority managed institutions involved in higher
education.
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