Meritorious college students from BMC faculties eager about showing for engineering and medical entrance exams will now get a one-time monetary help of Rs 50,000. This shall be relevant from March 2024 and the primary 100 meritorious college students of the Secondary College Certificates (SSC or Class for the yr 2024-25 on Friday.
This yr’s schooling finances reveals a rise of round Rs 150 crore over final yr’s finances estimate, which was Rs 3,347.13 crore. However the share of schooling within the whole finances has fallen marginally from 6.16 % in 2023-24 to five.83 % this yr.
A budgetary provision of Rs 2.81 crore has been made for the brand new scheme for offering monetary help to meritorious college students, which may have three classes, together with help for college students making ready for medical and engineering entrance exams. Within the second class, Rs 50,000 per pupil shall be offered for personal teaching in preparation for preliminary exams for state or central authorities recruitment.
Explaining the plan, BMC schooling officer Rajesh Kankal mentioned, “This refers to exams like MPSC, UPSC and different authorities recruitment exams. Contemplating that preparation for such exams begins solely after commencement, deserving college students can apply for this specific scheme as much as seven years after passing SSC.”
Below the third class, monetary help of Rs 25,000 or tuition price, whichever is greater, shall be offered per pupil per yr as much as his or her diploma course from acknowledged instructional establishments in India. This plan, Kankal defined, is an present plan. “However as an alternative of the sooner restrict of high 25 college students, it has now been expanded to high 100 meritorious college students. Furthermore, all three classes of monetary help are actually additionally accessible to the highest 100 meritorious youngsters (in SSC) of BMC sanitation staff,” he mentioned.
To create curiosity in agriculture amongst college students of civic faculties, the BMC has introduced natural farming. It consists of coaching college students to develop greens in school, which shall be utilized in mid-day meals. Another new venture bulletins embody an open grammar faculty, the acquisition of grammar books and the event of on-line trainer switch software program