Lucknow, Dec 09 (UiTV/IANS) – The Uttar Pradesh government is introducing the Chief Minister’s Award Scheme for meritorious students from the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category.
The scheme will apply to OBC students (from Class 10th and 12th) studying in schools affiliated with the Uttar Pradesh Board. So far, the amount to be given under the scheme has not been specified.
According to a state government spokesman, educational institutions will also be directed to submit a list of OBC students who can be made employable or financially self-reliant through computer training.
or this, a budget proposal will be prepared so that more students benefit from the computer training scheme. There is also a proposal to digitally prepare students from backward classes for competitive examinations.
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The directions regarding the aforementioned schemes have been issued by Narendra Kashyap, Minister of state for the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities and State Commission for Backward Classes.
The Minister has ordered concerned officials to ensure that information regarding schemes for backward classes are circulated through social media as well.
Meanwhile, the minister also directed the management of city-based Dr Shakuntala Mishra National Rehabilitation University to ensure that admissions on reserved seats are done more transparently.
Notably, the varsity has reserved 50 per cent of its seats for disabled students. Out of these reserved seats, 50 per cent are kept for visually impaired students.
Kashyap also directed the department to organise an exhibition of products made by the disabled to provide more educational and employability opportunities to people with disabilities.
Further, to ensure maximum enrolment of differently-abled students at Dr Shakuntala Mishra National Rehabilitation University, disabled students will be provided free-of-cost education, hostel accommodation, and food arrangements in the campus.
This will be done with aid from the state government.
Man held in Lucknow for robbing his aunt’s house
A youth in Uttar Pradesh’s state capital Lucknow chose to steal from his aunt’s house in order to repay his debts, Police said.
The accused Abdullah Iqbal, 26, has been arrested and the police have recovered Rs 5.68 lakh and ornaments worth Rs 28 lakh from his possession.
The Police added that the houseowner Shabana Khan of Moazzmnagar locality, along with her son, had gone to attend a marriage function on December 3 and found the house burgled when she returned home the next day.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP), Chiranjeev Nath Sinha, said, “It was not possible for anyone to break the lock of the inside door without entering the house as its front door and staircase door were closed and the locks at these doors were intact.”
This gave enough hint that someone was present in the house and fled after breaking the lock at the inside door in the back portion of the house.
“A CCTV camera footage showed Iqbal lurking around the house with a bag, raising our suspicion and therefore he was rounded up,” the officer added.
Abdullah said he had visited the house of his aunt on December 3 and came to know her plan to visit the house of her relative to attend the function. He stayed there until the house owner left for the wedding venue and pretended that he also was leaving for his home. But he stayed back and hid in a room.
“After Shabana left house, he rummaged through the house, collected the cash and ornaments and fled the house after breaking the lock at the inside door,” the Police said.
Abdullah said he needed the money to repay his loans.
