The State Government will be giving from this year stipend to students in the final semester of the four-year Bachelor degree course in Fisheries Sciences.
Each of the 45 students pursuing the course in the College of Fisheries in Mangaluru will be getting Rs. 11,500 per month during the last six months of the course when they will be sent to different firms to get hands-on training.
Minister of State for Youth Empowerment, Sports and Fisheries K. Abayachandra Jain told reporters here on Monday that students of the Fisheries course had been demanding stipend in the way those studying Veterinary Sciences and Dairy Sciences were getting. “Recently the Finance Department approved the proposal. It will start with this academic year,” Mr. Jain said.
This stipend will be of great relief to students who were spending out of their pockets when sent to work in places in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, Mr. Jain said.
Vice-Chancellor of Karnataka Veterinary Animal and Fisheries Sciences University C. Renuka Prasad said the stipend was being provided under the Student Ready Programme of the State Government. Students are provided hands-on training and skills necessary to make them employment ready.
Mr. Prasad said students of Veterinary Sciences, who are more in number, were getting stipend for the last few years; Dairy Sciences students got it from 2013.
The Minister and the Vice-Chancellor earlier inaugurated the three-day long inter-collegiate youth festival “Waves 2015” on Monday. Students from seven colleges affiliated to the University are participating in the event.
