Himanta Biswa Sarma announces to give cash award of Rs 20,000 to HSLC students

Assam government has decided to deposit Rs 20,000 in the bank account of a student scoring star marks or 75 per cent
Himanta Biswa Sarma announces to give cash award of Rs 20,000 to HSLC students

Assam Education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday announced the government will give cash to the meritorious students who cleared Class-X examination instead of providing computers as many parts come from China and other countries and are difficult to source during this ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Addressing a press conference , Sarma stated, the state government has decided to deposit Rs 20,000 in the bank account of a student scoring star marks or 75 per cent in High School Leaving Certificate examinations from this year.

As India afford to boycott Chinese products given the circumstances, Sarma informed  "Usually we give a computer to each student getting star marks. As many parts of a computer come from China and other countries and it is not conducive for us to buy it now, we have decided to deposit Rs 20,000 to each student in their bank accounts," 

This year, 16,944 students have scored star marks and bank details of 16,648 have already been collected, he added

State Education and Finance minister Sarma also said that as the government does not install the latest softwares like Microsoft Windows in the computers, so most of the students change it after getting machines.

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