The Bihar Cabinet on Tuesday announced a ₹1 lakh encouragement incentive for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe students who clear the UPSC preliminary test.
The Cabinet also decided to provide ₹1,000 to each SC/ST student as hostel incentive and free supply of 15 kg foodgrain to the hostels.
“The Cabinet approved the decision to give ₹1 lakh and ₹50,000 as encouragement incentive to those SC/ST students who clear the UPSC and the BPSC tests,” Chief Secretary Anjani Kumar Singh said. The Cabinet also approved 16 decisions of different departments on Tuesday.
