08-08-2008, 08:09 PM
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Pioneer.com
Omer Farooq | Hyderabad
<b>The Andhra Pradesh Government will pay the tuition fee of 20,000 new engineering students of Muslim minority this academic year. </b>
State's Minister for Minority Welfare Mohammed Ali Shabbir said that the Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy has also sanctioned additional fund of Rs 29 crore to pay the tuition fee of the engineering students studying in 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of engineering courses.
This is the first academic year in which the State Government will be paying the tuition fee of the Muslim students of professional courses. <b>"The State Government has allocated a budget of Rs 140 crore towards the payment of fee of the Muslim minority students giving a big fillip to uplift the community educationally," Shabbir said</b>.
He was speaking at the inauguration of International Islamic Book Fair in Hyderabad on Friday. He said apart from paying Rs 30,000 fee for the engineering course, the State was also paying Rs 50,000 fee for the MBBS courses for the students from economically weak families of the community.
"On the whole Muslim students studying in 16 professional courses will benefit from this scheme from this year," he said. Underlining the importance State's Congress Government was giving to provide every possible help to the deserving students, he said, "Now onwards parents will not have to worry about the fee of their wards. The boys and girls of poor families will become doctors and engineers without any problem," he said.
He said that 20,000 Muslim students will be studying in engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh, both in the Government, private and minority institutions. "This is higher than the number of Muslim students studying engineering in all the States of the country," he said.
First of its kind International Islamic Book Fair, will continue for 10 days from Friday. Mohammed Azharuddin, head of the Huda Book Distributors said 30,000 titles on different subjects from all over the world be on display at the exhibition.
"Books of the leading distributors from India, Pakistan, Malaysia, UK, Beirut and Saudi Arabia are part of this exhibition," he said. Apart from the books on various aspects of Islam, translation and interpretation of Quran in all the Indian languages is also put on the display at the exhibition.
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Pioneer.com
Omer Farooq | Hyderabad
<b>The Andhra Pradesh Government will pay the tuition fee of 20,000 new engineering students of Muslim minority this academic year. </b>
State's Minister for Minority Welfare Mohammed Ali Shabbir said that the Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy has also sanctioned additional fund of Rs 29 crore to pay the tuition fee of the engineering students studying in 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of engineering courses.
This is the first academic year in which the State Government will be paying the tuition fee of the Muslim students of professional courses. <b>"The State Government has allocated a budget of Rs 140 crore towards the payment of fee of the Muslim minority students giving a big fillip to uplift the community educationally," Shabbir said</b>.
He was speaking at the inauguration of International Islamic Book Fair in Hyderabad on Friday. He said apart from paying Rs 30,000 fee for the engineering course, the State was also paying Rs 50,000 fee for the MBBS courses for the students from economically weak families of the community.
"On the whole Muslim students studying in 16 professional courses will benefit from this scheme from this year," he said. Underlining the importance State's Congress Government was giving to provide every possible help to the deserving students, he said, "Now onwards parents will not have to worry about the fee of their wards. The boys and girls of poor families will become doctors and engineers without any problem," he said.
He said that 20,000 Muslim students will be studying in engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh, both in the Government, private and minority institutions. "This is higher than the number of Muslim students studying engineering in all the States of the country," he said.
First of its kind International Islamic Book Fair, will continue for 10 days from Friday. Mohammed Azharuddin, head of the Huda Book Distributors said 30,000 titles on different subjects from all over the world be on display at the exhibition.
"Books of the leading distributors from India, Pakistan, Malaysia, UK, Beirut and Saudi Arabia are part of this exhibition," he said. Apart from the books on various aspects of Islam, translation and interpretation of Quran in all the Indian languages is also put on the display at the exhibition.
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