Vijayawada, Mar 1 (UNI) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday released Rs 708.68 crore towards Jagananna Vidya Deevena scheme for total fee reimbursement for the quarter October-December, 2023.
The amount would be directly credited into the joint bank accounts of 9,44,666 students and their mothers.
Addressing a huge public meeting at Pamarru near here before releasing the amount with the click of a button here, the Chief Minister said that Jagananna Vidya Deevena (JVD) scheme and other schemes help students from poor families to pursue higher education, get professional degrees and boldly face the competitive job market.
“The government has been striving to reform the system by introducing English Medium, digitization, modern and emerging subjects like AI and IB besides upgrading school infrastructure through Nadu-Nedu programme so that the Government school students receive quality education, pursue global courses and face the competition easily in world job market,” he stated.
The Chief Minister said that the Government has been making huge investments in the educational sector as it believes that education is the only weapon that eradicates poverty.
“Under the JVD scheme, the Government has been making regular quarterly payments soon after completion of the quarter and so far, it has spent Rs 12,610 crore benefiting 29,65,930 students pursuing ITI, Polytechnic, Degree, Engineering, Medicine and other professional courses,” Reddy said, adding that Government has spent Rs 72,919 crore on educational reforms in the last 57 months.
“I am the only Chief Minister who has gone into the details of the school and college curriculum and taken steps to introduce modern and emerging courses like AI, verticals like risk management, machine learning, virtual and augmented reality, investment banking and management, robotics, virtual building designs, intellectual communication, risk return and supply chain management,” the CM observed.
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