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School Attendance Allowance: In order to increase the number of girls studying in classes 1st to 4th from economically weaker sections outside tribal areas, as well as from Scheduled Castes-Tribes and Nomadic Tribes, it was decided to provide incentive attendance allowance to girls studying in classes 1st to 4th with the aim of reducing the dropout rate of girls. An allowance of one rupee per day per student was fixed. Allowance is given taking into account 220 days of total attendance in a year, said Munde.
For three decades, the state government has been giving an incentive subsidy of one rupee per day to the economically weaker sections of the state, scheduled caste tribes outside the tribal areas, nomadic tribes, etc. Former NCP minister Dhananjay Munde demanded from school education minister Deepak Kesarkar that the subsidy should be increased to at least Rs 20.
In the year 1992, the then state government celebrated the Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Jayanti and keeping the ideal of female education and women empowerment in front of its eyes, the number of girls from the economically weaker sections outside the tribal areas, as well as the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Nomadic Tribes should be increased and the dropout rate of girls should be reduced. , for these purposes had decided to provide incentive attendance allowance to girls studying in class I to IV.
An allowance of one rupee per day per student was fixed. Allowance is given taking into account 220 days of total attendance in a year, said Munde.
Funds have not yet been made available for providing allowance to the beneficiaries of this scheme in the academic year 2022-23. No changes have been made in the scheme for 30 years. As the country celebrates its golden jubilee of independence, inflation is skyrocketing. Munde said in a letter to the education minister that the allowance of one rupee given in the name of Savitrimai is a mockery of school girls.