Rs 300 crore for improving education in Himachal, says MLA

Our Correspondent

Dharamsala, February 5

MLA Kewal Singh Pathania said the state government is making necessary reforms in the education system to provide quality education to the children.

The state government is set to spend Rs 300 crore to improve the quality of education. Rajiv Gandhi Day-Boarding Schools were being opened in every assembly constituency of the state to give proper exposure to the students, he added.

On Monday, at the inauguration of the state-level cultural competition organised under the aegis of ‘Samagra Shiksha Himachal’ at the Government College, Dharamsala, Pathania — who was the chief guest of the event — said that from the next academic session, English-medium courses would be started from class-1 in government-run schools.

He said there is a section of the society which cannot raise its voice. For their welfare, the state government has made a law under the Chief Minister Sukh Ashray Yojana and adopted 4,000 orphans as ‘children of the state’. Under this scheme, orphans up to 18 years of age are being given Rs 2,500 per month and those up to 27 years of age are being given Rs 4,000. The state government would also bear the expenses of their higher education, he added.

He said the state government started the Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar Vidyarthi Loan Scheme, under which loans up to Rs 20 lakh are being granted at 1 per cent interest for higher education.

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