With a view to helping more poor students join Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs), Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday hiked their monthly stipend and removed the Rs 50,000 ceiling on annual family income for availing the assistance.
Hereafter, students from all communities will get a uniform assistance of Rs 500 irrespective of the annual income of their parents. For this measure, the Chief Minister has allocated Rs 12.94 crore. Besides, the Chief Minister announced that laptops would be given free of cost to those pursuing IT-related courses. The eligible streams are Computer Operator and Programme Assistant course, Desktop Publishing Operator course, Computer Hardware Mechanic course, Information Technology and Electronic System Maintenavnce and Information Technology. The free laptops are intended to help students improve their IT skills. To implement this, the Chief Minister has allocated Rs 3.47 crore and the measure will benefit as many as 3,476 students.
There are 62 ITIs in the State where poor students are being imparted training in 39 engineering and 17 non-engineering trades and the government provides them assistance based on their parent’s annual income. Under this scheme, students from denotified communities and Adi Dravida community are being paid `140 and `150 respectively while Rs 175 is being given to tribal students and those who came back to India after migrating to Burma, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. General candidates (students from all communities with income ceiling) are given Rs 100 per month.
Since the assistance is inadequate, several students, citing the family’s financial condition, are not joining the ITIs and are going for work. Considering this situation, the CM has now announced these measures, an official release here said.
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