In a move aimed at appeasing the Maratha community which agitated successfully for more than two years for a quota, the state government has decided to offer UPSC coaching to Maratha students for free in Delhi.
Under the scheme, 225 meritorious Maratha students will be selected, and the state will send them to the national capital for coaching for the civil service or IAS exams. “We will be spending Rs4.3 lakh for each of the students. The government will pay their coaching class fees and provide them a stipend of Rs13,000 per month,” said cabinet minister Chandrakant Patil, who heads the Maratha reservation subcommittee.
Patil said there are no classes for NET-SET exams, so the government will start centres to coach students from the community to appear for these exams. Patil said recently, advertisements were issued to fill 200 posts of judges in the state. “We will give required assistance to qualified people from the Maratha community to appear for the recruitment exams,” he added. The government is also devising a module to train students in telecom-related skills.
The state has already announced a 16% reservation under the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) category for the Maratha community in state jobs and educational institutes. Besides, subsidy in education fees to youth from the numerically dominant community too has been given. “So far, Rs244 crore has been disbursed to colleges and institutions towards reimbursing 50% of the fee amount to students (from the Maratha community),” said Patil.
Patil said the state government has announced a scheme in which youth entrepreneurs from the community will be given loans for which interest will be reimbursed. Under the scheme, loans up to Rs10 lakh can be given, and 2,800 youths have got loans so far.
“We are hoping to give loans to at least 10,000 youths every year, which will help us generate at least 50,000 jobs every year,” said Patil.
He said the state government had decided to stand guarantee for loans the youth take from nationalised banks, but now the scheme will be extended to loans taken from cooperative banks as well.
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