ludhiana in a bid to check the dropout rate and to increase the literacy among scheduled caste girl students at senior secondary level education department will give away encouragement awards to the sc girl students who take admission in classes xi and xii so as to encourage them to continue their studiesdistrict education officer deo lakhbir singh samra has written to the principals of the schools to update the data of students of eportal the data of 1463 students has been updated on the epunjab portal for data verification and the passout students of 2020 and 2021 will be given the same he addeddistrict nodal officer media d s chhina said the objective is to provide financial assistance to such students studying at postmatriculation or postsecondary stage to enable them to complete their educationpramod bharti state nodal officer saidthis step will certainly check the high dropout rate among the sc girl students improve female literacy rate and empower the sc women as well each sc girl of classes xi and xii will be provided a lump sum of rs 3000 every year wards of nontax payee families will be covered under this schemeprincipal of government senior secondary school sahnewal karamjit kaur we have applied for the scholarship on epunjab portal we had received from deo office and 19 students from my school has applied for the same