Govt launches new scheme for girl's hostels
New Delhi: The Central Government has launched a new scheme for the construction and running of girls' hostels for students of secondary and higher secondary schools . The scheme will replace the centrally sponsored scheme for 'Strengthening of Boarding and Hostel Facilities for Girls', which was implemented during the 10th Five Year Plan. While the earlier scheme provided for financial assistance to voluntary organizations only for running girls' hostels, the revised scheme envisages financial assistance for both construction and running of girls' hostels by State Governments, in educationally backward blocks. The revised scheme provides for construction of 3,500 hostels, each with a capacity of 100 inmates, through State Governments in the educationally backward blocks in the country in addition to recurring grants to meet the needs of inmates. The main objective of the revised scheme is to bring the girl child to school and to retain her in school at secondary an...