Though the year 2010 against gender-based violence is over, the Department is set to distribute scholarship to all girl students studying in public schools giving continuity to the year against gender-based violence up to mid-June, 2011.[break]
Chief of Department of Education, Gender Equal Development Division, Ganesh Prasad Poudel informed that this year the Depart will provide scholarship to 2,293,744 girl students across the country.
The government has allocated around Rs. 917.49 million for the scholarship, he further informed, adding that each girl student will get at the range of Rs. 400 to Rs. 700 under the programme.
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