Shrine Board releases scholarships to students belonging to Baridar families

Excelsior Correspondent

KATRA, Feb 24: As part of its various continuing programmes to promote the interests of the erstwhile Baridar families, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board has released over rupees one crore as scholarships to 1360 students belonging to the Baridar families for the ongoing academic session.
With this, the total amount paid by the Board as scholarships to the students belonging to the erstwhile Baridar families from 2002-03 to 2018-19 will cross Rs 5 crore. So far, more than 11000 students have been benefitted from this scheme of the Shrine Board.
Under the scholarship scheme priority is given to promote the education of girls by providing them scholarships at a higher scale. The students studying in class 1st to the post-graduation level are provided scholarships ranging from Rs 3,000 to Rs 18,000 per annum. In the case of girls, the scholarship amount ranges from Rs 4,200 to Rs 18,000 per annum while in the case of boys, the amount ranges from Rs 3,000 to Rs 14,400 per annum, depending upon the classes in which the student is enrolled.
Based on their class-wise internal merit, scholarships are given to the top 10 meritorious students studying in I-XII class in Government schools. As a special concession, the Shrine Board pays scholarships to Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Degree course students of erstwhile Baridar families who may be studying anywhere in the country, provided that the beneficiary student’s family normally resides in the villages surrounding the Trikuta Hills.
It is pertinent to mention that this year the Board has released highest ever amount as scholarship component on account of hike in the rates of scholarship amounts by the Chairman of Shrine Board (Governor, J&K).

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