Children of mitanins to get scholarship

Raipur, October  28, 2011

The government has decided to distribute scholarship to children of mitanins under Mukhyamantri Mitanin Kalyan Kosh (MMKK). Mitanins play key role in expanding health services in the remote rural pockets. Still, majority of their children stop studies in the middle due to financial crisis. Considering this, the government decided to start scholarship scheme for the children. In this connection, the government has done insurance of about 60000 mitanins of the state. The officials of the Health department informed that scholarships would be distributed to the children during a programme at one of the hotels of capital city on October 31. The programme would be organised by State Health Resource Centre (SHRC) and Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC). The officials said that the government had made several provisions for mitanins under MMKK and scholarship was one of them. Each student will receive scholarship to the tune of Rs 1200 per annum. The scholarship would be given to the students from class 9^th to 12^th.