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No tuition fee from girls

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CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government has decided not to charge any tuition fee from the girls studying in classes I to XII in Government schools, Education Minister Phool Chand Mullana announced here on Monday.

He disclosed that the Government had also provided bicycles to girls living in villages that have no middle, high or senior secondary schools to enable them to go to school in adjoining villages. Senior secondary schools for girls were being equipped with computer labs and free textbooks are being provided to girls students from classes I to VIII, he added.

Class IV vacant posts

The Government has also decided to wipe out the entire backlog of 807 vacant posts of Class IV employees belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes in various departments and public undertakings of the State, Finance Minister Birender Singh said here on Monday.

He disclosed that the Government had already accorded sanction to fill up the backlog of 7,158 posts in Class I, II and III categories.

Mr. Singh pointed out that the Congress Party had fulfilled the commitment made to the people in its manifesto for the 2005 Vidhan Sabha elections.

The backlog of vacant posts of SCs and BCs of Class IV would be filled up during the current financial year 2007-08, he added.

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