The Hindu        28.01.2011

MCD to give merit scholarships

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi is organising a competition for awarding merit scholarships to students of Class IV and V in its primary schools on Friday.

According to the MCD Education Committee chairman Mahinder Nagpal, about 52,000 students of MCD schools would be taking part in the competition and about 3,500 students each in Class IV and V, scoring over 60 per cent marks in the competition would get scholarship of Rs.500 and Rs.700 respectively on the basis of merit list which would be brought out in March.

He added that an amount of around Rs.42 lakh under the Plan head would be spent on the scheme.

The MCD is running 1,746 primary schools having an enrolment of around 9.5 lakh children. In addition, it runs attached nursery classes in 923 primary schools along with 33 independent nursery schools with enrolment of 50,000 children.