Srinagar: In a significant initiative for the empowerment of the state’s specially-abled students, Governor Satya Pal Malik on Monday announced the institution of ‘JK Govt Scholarship Scheme for Differently Abled Students’.
The spokesman said that under the scheme scholarship of Rs1 lakh each will be awarded every year to a meritorious specially-abled boy and girl student on ‘International Day for Disabled Persons’ being observed annually on December 3.
The main objective of the scholarship to the students with special needs is to assist and encourage them to study as well as acquire technical/professional/vocational training so as to enable them to earn a dignified living and to become useful members of society.