Central government to pay 90 percent of high school expenses in northeast

2010-01-01 13:30:00

The central government will provide 90 percent of the amount required to enroll and educate high school students in the northeastern states, a minister said here Friday.

The students in the age group of 15-16 years will be enrolled under Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA).

The ministry will bear 90 percent of the project expenditure of the education scheme in the northeastern states while for remaining states 75 percent of the cost will be borne by the central government.

The HRD ministry has called a meeting of 10 states, including Mizoram and Tripura, in New Delhi Jan 8 to finalise the initiation of the scheme in these states.

The central government has given Rs.50 million to six northeastern states - Tripura, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya and Sikkim - to start the preparatory works before beginning the RMSA.