The Maharashtra government on Monday announced various welfare schemes, including imparting commercial pilot training, for about 40,000 students from the OBC, SBC and VJNT categories.

State Social Welfare Minister Vijay Wadettiwar told reporters here the schemes were launched under the aegis of the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Research & Training Institute (Mahajyoti), an autonomous institute of the Other Backward Class Bahujan Welfare Department.