Dimapur, April 28 (EMN): Minister of higher education and technical education, Temjen Imna Along has requested the union minister of tribal affairs, Jual Oram, and the ministry secretary, Leena Nair, to release the pending backlog of post-matric scholarship amounting INR 7,71,73,310 for the year 2016 and also to release the balance amount for the year 2017-18.
The minister along with officials from higher education and technical education department had discussion with the union minister on various issues regarding education of tribal students of the state.
A press release issued by Kuolie Mere, PRO (IPR), Nagaland House, New Delhi, stated that the secretary of tribal affairs Leena Nair had assured to look into the matters at the earliest and to extend all the possible help to the state.
The minister also requested the secretary of MHRD R Subrahmanyam to consider and relax the eligibility criteria to apply for RUSA schemes for the students from Nagaland particular and the northeast in general to uplift the students of the north east region.
During the meeting with AICTE chairman Anil Sahasrabudhe, he assured the minister that the council will consider setting up one government engineering college and one training centre under NITTTR, Kolkata, for faculty development programme in the state.
