Govt earmarks Rs 48 Cr for CM’s Scholarship Scheme to benefit over 80,000 students: Meghalaya CM

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaMarch 5, 2025

Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Wednesday announced the Chief Minister’s Scholarship Scheme, a new flagship program that will benefit over 80,000 youth from the next financial year.

Presenting his budget speech, Sangma said, “A grant of Rs 6000 per annum will be provided to all post matriculate students to enable them to cover educational expenses.”

Later while interacting with media persons, the CM informed that the government has earmarked Rs 48 crore annually for implementing the scheme.

On the reason behind the decision, Sangma said, “The Chief Minister’s Scholarship Scheme is which the state government will give. As you are aware that the central government has been giving scholarships mostly through the tribal affairs ministry and some through MHA and other departments but these scholarships the amount are not regular, sometimes there’s a lot of gap in the amount that comes in and when it comes in and they release them in instalments. Therefore, there’s a lot of challenges our students face. We have talked to the Government of India and they keep releasing in batches – some gets and some don’t get. So it creates a problem for them.”

“Many students have asked me and I have clarified to them that these are central government subsidies and scholarships and we are pushing but till they don’t release, there’s not much we can do,” he said while adding “Keeping these issues in mind, we felt that the students (because all the feedbacks I get it seems students really need support) while we cannot give them support in every way at least some kind of support from the government side would be good in supporting, promoting and pushing them to do higher studies and that is why we came up with this programme.”