Srinagar, October 30: Jammu and Kashmir Social Welfare Minister Sakina Itoo today distributed scholarship cheques to students of an engineering college in Baramulla district, 55 kms from here.
Cheques worth Rs 27 lakh under Centrally sponsored Merit-cum-Means Scholarship scheme were distributed among 111 students of S S College of Engineering and Technology, Parihaspora.
Government is committed to uplift the weaker and backward section of the society, Itoo said, adding the scholarship to meritorious students of various communities will encourage them to seek higher education.
“Our mission is to serve the society to ensure inclusive growth of all sections and areas of Jammu and Kashmir and for this several state and centrally sponsored schemes have been launched”, Itoo said.
Itoo stressed for organising awareness camps to make people aware about these schemes enabling them to get benefits well in time.
–PTI