BMC Budget 2024: Financial assistance scheme for meritorious students in SSC Exams

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC commissioner Dr Iqbal Singh Chahal on Friday presented a Rs 5995475 crore BMC Budget 2024 The Mumbai civic body has proposed Financial assistance Scheme for meritorious students in SSC ExamsThe BMC said that according to the concept proposed by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde a study group has been established to form an autonomousuniversity with all inclusive courses for medical and paramedical educationThe civic body said after achieving the objective of new admissions for bringing out the majority of eligible and outofschool children within the jurisdiction of BMC into the mainstream of education through the special campaign of lsquoMission Admission Ekach Lakshya Ek Laksharsquo now lsquoMission Meritrsquo is being implemented for improving the quality of studentsbull In the year 202324 3 new CBSE Schools have been established At present a total of 17 schools including 14 schools of CBSE Board and 1 school each of ICSEIGCSE and IB Board are functional Also 4 new CBSE Board Schools will be established in the year 202425bull Facility of Gamified Learning App on the concept of lsquoLearning through Gamesrsquo is being newly made available in a total of 19401 tabs provided to the students ofsecondary schools of BMCbull Financial Literacy Books which were published in Marathi Hindi Urdu and English were distributed to 43000 students of Std 8th and Std 9th from all mediums of BMC schools in association with lsquoThe Bombay Stock Exchange Institute Limitedrsquobull Guidance on health and diet was provided to around 600 students of BMC schools in the age group of 8 to 13 years with the help of experts through campaign of lsquoSankalp Sampurna SwasthyarsquoEstablishment of 220 SkillDevelopment Centers with 12 courses in 196 BMC secondary schools has been started for the students of Std 9th and Std 10th for providing skillbased educationthrough science and technologyUpgradation of Computer Laboratories Tender process for upgradation of 224 computer labs in the Education Department of BMC has been completed Out of which 112 computer labs are upgraded in the year 202324 and remaining 112 computer labs will be upgraded in the year 202425New Projects and Welfare Schemes for the FY 2024251 Organic Farming Kitchen Garden The new concept of Organic Farming Kitchen Garden will be implemented in 100 BMC schools in the city division with the joint contribution of the BMC and Secretary of District Planning Committee Mumbai City Government of Maharashtra to create an interest in agriculture among the students of BMC school2 Dictionary It is proposed to provide lsquoModern School Dictionaryrsquo EnglishMarathi to around 170000 students of BMC schools of Std 5th to Std 10th and one lsquoAdvanced Dictionaryrsquo EnglishMarathi to each school of 1200 schools for teachers in the year 202425Establishment of Innovative Mathematics and Science Center To enhance the quality of education of BMC school students it is proposed to establish Innovative Mathematics and Science Centre in 25 schools of primary section on pilot basisSchemes proposed to be implemented from March 2024 To provide financial assistance to first 100 top scorer students of BMC secondary school in SSC Examination and first 100 top scorer children of working conservancy staff of BMC who would score 60 per cent and above in SSC ExaminationScheme 1 Financial assistance of Rs25000 or college fee only tuition fee whichever is higher will be provided per student per annum upto degree education from recognised educational institutions within India maximum upto 7 years for courses of TechnicalVocational Medical etcScheme 2 Onetime financial assistance of Rs50000 per student will be provided for private tutoring for the preparation of preliminary examination of Medical and Professional CoursesScheme 3 Onetime financial assistance of Rs50000 per student will be provided for private tutoring for the preparation of preliminary examination conducted for employment in State or Central Government Budget Estimates Primary for the year 202425 is Rs349782 crore