Aadhaar exemption for Assam students
A staff reporter
Guwahati, Aug. 4: The Centre has exempted students of Assam from compulsory requirement of Aadhaar number for availing of UGC scholarships for higher education, Union human resource development minister Prakash Javadekar said today.
Javadekar informed Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of the exemption during a meeting in New Delhi after Sonowal drew the Union minister's attention towards the problems faced by the students of the state in getting UGC scholarship because of the compulsory requirement of Aadhaar number.
Enrolment for Aadhaar cards has started only in a few districts of the state.
It will be taken up in the rest of the state after completion of the NRC update.
Sonowal and Javadekar also discussed issues related to appointment of teachers in government schools in Assam. The chief minister requested him to expedite setting up a campus of Tezpur University at Jonai in Dhemaji district.
A staff reporter
Guwahati, Aug. 4: The Centre has exempted students of Assam from compulsory requirement of Aadhaar number for availing of UGC scholarships for higher education, Union human resource development minister Prakash Javadekar said today.
Javadekar informed Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of the exemption during a meeting in New Delhi after Sonowal drew the Union minister's attention towards the problems faced by the students of the state in getting UGC scholarship because of the compulsory requirement of Aadhaar number.
Enrolment for Aadhaar cards has started only in a few districts of the state.
It will be taken up in the rest of the state after completion of the NRC update.
Sonowal and Javadekar also discussed issues related to appointment of teachers in government schools in Assam. The chief minister requested him to expedite setting up a campus of Tezpur University at Jonai in Dhemaji district.
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