Centre has proposed to introduce a scheme to open residential schools for scheduled caste girls in educationally backward districts. The Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot was speaking at a regional conference of social welfare ministers from Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, and officials from Chandigarh.
He said the schools will have classes from VI to XII and 70 per cent of the seats will be reserved for SC girls and the remaining for those from BPL families in other categories.
The minister said the Centre is committed to ensure the welfare of scheduled caste and tribes, OBCs and BPL families through proper implementation of all centrally-sponsored social security and welfare schemes.
He urged the ministers and officials to prepare a report on the financial assistance being given under different schemes and by the national financial corporations within a month.