GUWAHATI: While speaking at a government program at Sivasagar, Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that they are planning to give Rs 100 every day to school and college-going female students so that they attend their classes regularly.
He claimed that an amount of Rs 1,500 and Rs 2,000 respectively, for undergraduate and postgraduate students, will be deposited in their bank accounts by the end of January month so that they can utilise the money for buying books.
“We had planned this last year itself but couldn’t implement it because of the spread of Covid-19. We wanted to pay money for attending classes to girls in both schools and colleges,” said Assam education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
He made this announcement while attending the distribution function of motorbikes to girls who passed last year’s Class XII state board examination in the first division.
In the motorbikes distribution function, 948 girl students received scooters at Sivasagar.