Scholarships to girls for higher education in Madhes

Mahottari, Jan 2: The Madhes province government has arranged scholarships to increase women's access to higher education.    

Scholarship has been arranged for the daughters of the most poor and marginalized communities of the province to pursue higher education.  

 
According to the Madhes Province Education Directorate, scholarships will be provided to Dalit, Muslim, poor and talent girl students of the province.    

Chief Minister Satish Kumar Singh has said that the scholarship has been arranged to ensure that meritorious girl students from marginalized and disadvantaged families are not deprived of higher education.    

He told RSS that the directorate would complete the procedural work and scholarships would be given to the girl students. Dalit, Muslim, poor and genius students from all the eight districts of the province will get the scholarship.    

According to the Directorate, 1,071 applications have been received for the scholarship. In the scholarship, Rs 25,000 and Rs 35,000 will be given annually as educational fees in two categories, general and technical.   

 
Rs 35,000 will be provided for technical education and Rs 25,000 for humanities, commerce and education. The province government has allocated Rs 15 million for the scholarship in the current fiscal year.    

The status of education in Madhes is weak compared to other provinces. According to the National Census-2078, the literacy rate of Madhes is 63.5 percent and the female literacy rate is 43.2 percent. (RSS)