BANGALORE: The Government has come out with a scheme to meet the educational expenses of children, including those in job-oriented courses, of pourakarmikas in the State.

Minister for Municipal Administration S.R. Morey told presspersons here on Friday that the scheme will be introduced from the next academic year. The aims are to reduce the dropout rate and also help them secure employment.

The Minister said he has asked officials to make a study of how many children of pourakarmikas are studying in schools and colleges and the expenditure the Government has to incur to meet the cost of their education. The expenditure will be met out of the funds earmarked (18 per cent) for the welfare of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. There are about 7,000 pourakarmikas in places other than Bangalore and their children will get the benefits., he said.

The pourakarmikas will also get sites and houses if they do not have any, and the list of such workers is being prepared.

They will get sites or houses, as the case may be, under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Housing Scheme.

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