School children will get 1200 rupees in Uttar Pradesh, money will come directly in the account of parents

<p>Abu Shahma Ansari |Government of Uttar Pradesh is providing free uniforms, school bags, shoes, socks and sweaters to the children of government schools in the state. Its amount will be sent to the account of the parents through DBT. Till now, 1100 rupees were sent per student for this. In which ₹ 600 were for uniforms, ₹ 175 for school bags, ₹ 125 for shoes socks and ₹ 200 for sweaters. Now the government has also decided to send money for pen, pencil, eraser and sharpener by increasing ₹ 100 on it.The Yogi Adityanath government of the state has decided in the cabinet meeting held on Tuesday that now the children of government schools will also be given copy pencil and pen money. After which the amount to be sent under this scheme has been increased from Rs 1100 to Rs 1200. It will be directly transferred to the account of the parents.</p>