Tamilnadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today announced a Rs seven crore scheme to enable wards of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees to get proper education in the State. |
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.gif) According to an official release here, the Chief Minister, on coming to know that children from as many as 21,000 refugee families in the State found it difficult to get proper education in schools and colleges in Tamilnadu, has ordered that they could stay in all Adi Dravida, Tribal, Backward, Most Backward and Minority welfare hostels being run in the State.As per her order, five extra vacancies have been created in each of the 1,294 Adi Dravida and Tribal students hostels in the State. The movie will result in the government spending an extra Rs 3.15 crore. Likewise, five vacancies have been created in 1238 hostels run by the Backward, Most Backward and Minorities Welfare Department of Tamilnadu government. This will incur in an additional expense of Rs 4.25 crore. A total number of 12,660 vacancies have been created for refugee students, the release said. |
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