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“Dr. Ravi Pillai Academic Excellence Scholarship” volition supply wide opportunities for world achievements, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said.
He was speaking aft inaugurating a relation for organisation of the scholarships astatine Nishangandhi auditorium present connected Wednesday.
The Chief Minister said contiguous the acquisition assemblage successful Kerala was a exemplary for the country. However, the State had a acheronian signifier wherever the acquisition close was denied to many. The struggles by societal reformers and national, progressive, and governmental movements led to the enactment of a agreed Kerala successful which the archetypal authorities led by E.M.S. Namboodiripad scrapped interest to marque acquisition escaped up to precocious primary. The 2nd EMS authorities made secondary acquisition escaped too. Government interventions successful the higher acquisition assemblage besides paved the mode for improvement of acquisition successful the State. Continuing these efforts, the authorities decided to marque acquisition escaped up to the postgraduate level, the Chief Minister said.
He urged students to beryllium vigilant against attempts to beforehand caste-religious enmity. Students should clasp their humanity to enactment for the bully of society. They indispensable defy drugs and pledge not to prosecute successful substance abuse, helium said.
First phase
In the archetypal phase, scholarships to the tune of ₹10 crore volition beryllium distributed to 1,501 students. An magnitude of ₹525 crore for the adjacent 50 years had been acceptable speech for the scheme, being implemented by industrialist Ravi Pillai arsenic portion of societal responsibility.
The Chief Minister noted that though Mr. Pillai was a salient sanction globally, the assistance strategy for students was a grounds to his ties with the State. The scholarships would assistance students from economically anemic backgrounds to scope for higher acquisition opportunities, helium said.
The assistance volition beryllium fixed by the Dr.Ravi Pillai Foundation successful relation with NoRKA Roots to students from secondary schoolhouse level to nonrecreational colleges. At the higher secondary level, 1,100 students volition get ₹50,000 each. As galore arsenic 200 undergraduate students volition get ₹1 lakh each, and 200 postgraduate students volition get ₹1.25 lakh each.
Minister for Revenue K. Rajan presided implicit the function. Mr. Pillai, who is besides the NoRKA director, and NoRKA enforcement vice-chairperson P. Sreeramakrishnan was besides present.
