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GUWAHATI, March 17: In view of Assam Budget 2023, Assam Finance Minister Ajanta Neog informed that students securing the top spot in class IX will be given tablets that are associated with a central organization that provides educational resources and mentoring. The announcement was made on Thursday while presenting the Assam Budget 2023–24.
Neog stated that the activities launched by Pragyan Bharati last year will be continued with more vigor. Free bicycles will also be offered to all Class IX students attending public and private secondary schools. Free textbook distribution will be implemented. Hostel mess fees are waived up to Rs 2,000 a month for undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in degree-granting and polytechnic colleges.
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All deserving boys and girls who earn first division in higher secondary exams will receive Scooty. In addition to this, all BPL students will be provided with an annual mobility stipend of Rs 10,000 (except medical students) and are exempt from paying admission fees.
The Minister mentioned that Anundoram Barooah Prize will be given to deserving students who pass the HSLC. There will also be scholarships for students from minority groups, tea-garden communities, and SC/ST groups.
A few colleges, inclusive of Sibsagar College, Kokrajhar Government College, Bongaigaon College, Jagannath Barooah College in Jorhat, North Lakhimpur College, Handique Girl’s College, Nagaon College, and Gurucharan College in Silchar, would be upgraded into universities by the introduction of enabling legislation, the Finance Minister further stated. She also said that a new university called Shahid Kanaklata Barua State University would be founded in Gohpur in honor of the legendary Assamese liberation fighter and to raise the bar for higher education in the North Bank adding that Bodoland University will open a satellite campus in Udalguri.
