Government will give 5000 rupees to tribal students in Odisha for studies

According to UNICEF report, a large number of children in tribal community of Odisha leave going to school and about 50% girls get married at a young age.
Siddharth Gautam
Discontinuation of studies of tribal youth has been a big problem. The family is unable to bear the expenses of studies and the result is that most of the students’ studies remain incomplete. Odisha government has taken a big step in view of this. Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has made a big announcement in this direction while inaugurating the annual tribal fair on January 5.
During this, he launched Shaheed Madho Singh Hath Kharcha Yojana. Under this scheme, the government will give assistance of five thousand rupees to each tribal student studying in class 9th and 11th in government and aided schools across the state. While launching the scheme, the Chief Minister gave financial assistance of Rs 80 crore to 1.6 lakh tribal students. Chief Minister Majhi announced that the state government will provide financial incentives to about two lakh tribal students every year.
Let us tell you that about one fourth (23%) of the total population of Odisha is from the Scheduled Tribe / Tribal community. This is about 8% of the total population of India. After independence, many committees were formed to improve the condition of the tribals. The main ones among them were Renuka Roy in 1959 and Verrier Elwin Committee in 1960. It gave many recommendations for the development of education among the tribals as well as their overall development. But the plans of all these committees remained in vain. According to the report published in the website of UNICEF, a large number of children in the tribal community of Odisha leave going to school and about 50% of the girls get married at an early age.
Now it has to be seen how much this decision of the Odisha government is implemented on the ground. And how much the level of education among the tribals improves due to this. As far as Shaheed Madho Singh Hath Kharch Yojana is concerned, online applications have started to avail its benefits. You can apply for this by visiting www.scholarship.odisha.gov.in.
Siddharth Gautam
Siddharth Gautam is a student of Delhi University. Siddharth, who is interested in journalism and writing, does freelance writing. He has been the winner of many university-level writing competitions in Delhi.
Courtesy : Hindi News