Education

Highlights

• A holistic development of education from pre-nursery to Class XII by removing segmentation.
• An Ekalavya Model Residential School will be set up in every block with more than 50% Schedule Tribe (ST) population and at least 20,000 tribal persons by 2022 to provide quality education to tribal children.
• Prime Minister’s Research Fellows (PMRF) scheme to be launched covering the 1,000 best B.Tech students each year from premier institutions and providing them facilities to pursue Ph.D in IITs and IISc with a “handsome fellowship”.
• Allocation for Kendriya Vidyalayas is Rs. 4,425 crore, fully financed from National Investment fund.