Children of unorganised workers will now receive enhanced educational support. Students benefiting from the Labour Ministry's welfare schol...

The Ministry of Labour and Employment will return unclaimed EPF deposits to over 3.1 million subscribers, with a pilot phase benefiting 0.7...

Even as most ministries show 50-60% utilisation with less than a month for the current fiscal to end, the review has found that funds spent...

Proposal is for class 9 to postgrad students of OBC, SC, Denotified tribe, EBC categories. Centre also proposes to link senior citizens wit...

Govt reworks strategy as its direct benefit schemes for students and youngsters fail to reach the desired number of people.

The Centre awarded scholarships to more than 2.46 crore students belonging to minority communities between 2012-13 and 2014-15.

Over 85 lakh students have benefited from scholarship schemes meant for the youth from the minority communities during the last fiscal, Raj...

The aim is to focus on merit and equity in disbursal of the fellowships and not to discontinue them," officials said, adding, an expert com...

The Centre has not earmarked separate funds for 'Prime Minister's New 15 Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities', an RTI query has r...

I am now keen that the pre-matric scholarship scheme is also delivered to the beneficiaries through the DBT mode from this year- Najma Hept...

National Commission for Minorities, however, took up the issue of MPs like Yogi Adityanath and Sakshi Maharaj targeting Muslims over 'love-...

Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram will review on Monday the preparatory works for implementation of 'direct cash transfer' in Puducherry.

With a view to provide better employment opportunities, the government will set up a special Skill Development Corporation for the youth wi...

The government will provide interest subsidy on educational loans and also start a scholarship scheme to help poor and meritorious students...

In a bid to arrest dropouts among poor but meritorious students government approved a scholarship scheme at an expense of over Rs 3,000 cro...

The government has decided to pay special attention towards secondary education, focusing on deprived sections.

A Parliamentary Committee has asked the government to expedite the implementation of various schemes meant for minorities to ensure develop...