K'taka Govt to bear educational expenses of top ten scoring girls

Udupi, Sep 22 (UNI) The Karnataka Government has decided to meet the educational expenses of girls from below poverty line families, scoring top ten ranks in pre-university examinations in each district, Medical Education Minister Dr V S Acharya said today.

Speaking after distributing free cycles to VIII standard girl students here, he said 270 girl students would benefit from this innovative scheme for studying professional courses from this year.

Dr Acharya said the Government had set apart Rs 230 crore under the 'Bhagyalaxmi Baramma' scheme for depositing Rs 10,000 on the birth of a female child in a BPL family up to a ceiling of two children.

The Minister said that although the Rs 37 crore bicycle scheme was launched on August 15 last and introduced in six districts, it was delayed in the undivided Dakshina Kannada district due to the problem of transportation of cycles during monsoon season from Gujarat. A total of 3,957 bicycles would be distributed in Udupi district to girl students of both Government and private schools.

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