'Gyan Deepika Scheme' Over 100 colleges fail to submit beneficiary lists

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The higher education department has issued a notice to various colleges who have not yet submitted the list of beneficiaries who can avail of the free textbooks under the “Gyan Deepika Scheme”.

In the 2019-20 budget, the government introduced the scheme, which shall provide reimbursement of Rs. 1000 to degree students from the present Class 12, to buy textbooks. In this regard, on December 23, the higher education department had issued a letter to 302 government and provincialized colleges, to give the data of the eligible students before January 15, who can avail the grant. But so far, only 181 colleges have submitted the data of the beneficiaries and thus the department has now extended the deadline to February 28.

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