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The Hindu Bureau
NEW DELHI: Calling a bicycle not simply a means of transport, but a instrumentality that volition springiness caller momentum to the confidence, independency and dreams of young students, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta connected Saturday said that the process of bicycle organisation to each girls taking admittance successful Class 9 successful authorities schools volition statesman aft the summertime vacation. “Around 1.30 lakh girls enrol successful Class 9 each year, and the bicycles volition assistance them passim their world travel from Class 9 to assemblage and coaching institutes. The acquisition of daughters is not conscionable important for families, but is the instauration of a brighter aboriginal for nine and the nation,” Ms. Gupta said.
She was speaking astatine an lawsuit to administer bicycles to 500 meritorious miss students who had passed Classes 10 and 12 successful the R. K. Puram Assembly constituency. The organisation was not connected to the escaped bicycle strategy announced by the authorities and was organised by the section MLA and a backstage organisation.
Ms. Gupta said the Delhi Government is continuously moving to supply greater opportunities, information and facilities for girls successful the tract of education. “The government’s nonsubjective is to guarantee that nary girl is forced to compromise connected her studies oregon dreams due to the fact that of a deficiency of resources,” the Chief Minister said.
To curb schoolhouse dropouts caused by agelong distances, the CM successful her fund code contiguous successful March this twelvemonth announced ₹90 crore for the organisation of escaped bicycles to 1.3 lakh ninth-grade girls successful authorities schools.
