Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday announced that food allocation for school and college students in government-run hostels would be increased to ₹1,400 and ₹1,500 per student per month respectively.
Addressing the concluding session of the two-day conference of Collectors in Chennai, he said the present allocation was ₹1,100 for both school and college students. A total of 1,71,844 students will benefit from the initiative, which would cost ₹68.77 crore more to the exchequer. However, the government has viewed this as an investment in education, he said.
Other announcements made at the conference include the implementation of a special scheme within the next two years to repair and improve infrastructure in hostels for students from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes, and Most Backward Classes.
