new delhi enrolment in government schools from class 1 to 8 has increased over the last three years lok sabha was informed on tuesday from 202223 prematric scholarship scheme is available only for students in class 9 and 10 social justice and empowerment minister virendra kumar said in a written reply in the parliament he said that enrolment of class 1 to 8 in government schools has increased in the last three years by about one crore from the year 202122 it has been decided to provide scholarships to students only from class 9 and 10 under prematric scholarship scheme for obcs under the scheme of prematric scholarships to scheduled castes sc and others prematric scholarship is being provided only to class 9 and 10 students since the launch of the scheme in 201213 the minister said he added that to incentivise children from these communities to attend school government is providing free education free uniform free meal etc under different programmes like samagrha shiksha abhiyan pm poshan etc kumar also said that earlier economically weaker sections were not provided prematric scholarship but in the revised scheme they are also being considered for prematric scholarship for classes ix and x the minister added that under the right to education rte act 2009 the government is committed to provide free and compulsory elementary education classes i to viii to each and every child