New Delhi July 18 (IANS) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the provision of 70 lakh scholarships to students from the minority communities under its pre-matric post-matric and merit-cum-means based schemes till the year 2020.
Union Minister of Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad told a media conference that under the three schemes the government provided 60 lakh scholarships to students of this category during 2017-18.
"To meet the next target of 70 lakh scholarships the total expenditure is going to be Rs 5 338.32 crore " he said.
The Minister also said that technology is being used in transferring scholarships directly to the accounts of the beneficiaries to avoid duplication and other problems.

--IANS mg/nir