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.