Lucknow: Over 2,000 private schools in Uttar Pradesh will provide free education to children who lost their parents due to COVID-19.
According to the Uttar Pradesh Unaided Private Schools’ Association (UPSA) president Anil Agarwal, the decision was made following a virtual meeting with Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma.
“We have unanimously decided that all private schools under the association will not take a single penny from children whose parents have succumbed to Covid. We will also provide stationery and uniform to such students too,” Agarwal was quoted as saying by news agency IANS.
Besides the free education to orphans, the UPSA will also provide a 50 per cent fee concession, apart from stationery and uniform, to the children who have lost the only earning member of the family, be it the father or mother.
“The entire educational fraternity has come together to give such children their full support,” the UPSA chief added.
Lucknow-based St Joseph College was the first to implement the decision and had declared free education for COVID orphans recently.
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