Bhubaneswar: In the current academic year, a total of 13,923 students have benefited under Krushi Vidya Nidhi Yojana, a component of CM-KISAN in which scholarship assistance is being given to sons and daughters of CM-KISAN beneficiaries for their higher education
The students benefited under the scheme include 592 in medical, 4,592 in engineering, 4,574 in polytechnic, 1,417 in nursing, 510 in MCA, 174 in agriculture and allied sector students.
Out of these, 55 are students from the prestigious educational institutions like NIT and IIM have been availed the benefit. A total sum of Rs. 53,57,94,405 financial grant has been provided by the State government. Payment has been made directly to the Aadhar linked bank account of the student.
Under this scheme, annual tuition fees including hostel fees are being provided to the eligible students for technical and professional courses like medical, engineering, nursing, diploma engineering, agriculture and allied courses, BBA, BCA in government, private and national level educational institutions.
For Government institutes, assistance for the actual course fee is granted where as in case of private institutes, the maximum annual capping amount has been fixed such as a sum of Rs 60,000 per year for B Tech Engineering, Rs 66,000 per year for M Tech Engineering, Rs 65,000 for MBA course, Rs 37,950 per year scholarship for 4-5 years medical education, Rs 35,000 per year for 4-year B Pharma, Rs 19,450 for nursing education, Rs 58,000 per year for two-year medical education, Rs 60,000 for architect course, etc. A student is getting the benefit of this till the end of the course.
