Puducherry: The United States Government has stopped the national incentive scheme to girls for secondary education (NSIGse), trade union education, skills development and entrepreneurial minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said.
Launched in May 2008, Nsigse aims to promote registration and reduce school dropouts belonging to the scheduled caste and the tribal community scheduled for high school and ensure their retention until the age of 18.
While replying to the letter sent by Villupuram MP D Ravikumar who asked him to continue the scheme, Pradhan said the Finance Expenditure Committee in 2017 was recommended to stop the scheme with the effects of 2018-19.
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The Nsigse scheme was stopped by WEF 2018-19 concerning the Recommendation for the Finance Expenditure Committee (EFC) in 2017 to redesign the scheme so that it can be implemented in a more effective way.
The budget allocation is then used to clean back the backlog and therefore the budget is reduced.
Scheme This is in the process of restructuring, “Pradhan said in a letter to Ravikumar.
The scheme includes all girls belonging to the SC / ST community, which passes class VIII and all girls, who passed the examination of class VIII from Kastba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (regardless of whether they were included in SC / ST), and registered in class IX in the state / state UT government, school body assisted by government and local.
The number of Rs 3,000 is stored in the name of unmarried girls who qualify as a permanent deposit on registration in class IX, which has the right to attract with interest at the age of 18 and pass class X examination.