The government on Tuesday launched the 'Maulana Azad Sehat Scheme'
which would see a 'Sehat Card' being issued to each minority student enrolled in
institutions aided by the Maulana Azad
Education Foundation.
Under this scheme, which was launched by
Minority Affairs Minister K Rahman Khan in New Delhi on Tuesday, students in
the age group of 5-14 years will be
provided with a health card which will entitle them to free check-ups twice a year at the place where they are studying. "We want to identify diseases from an
early stage among children," Khan said.
He also launched another scheme, Nalanda Project, which is a development
programme for the orientation of faculties of minority universities and
minority-managed degree colleges and higher educational institutions. Professor AR Kidwai of Aligarh Muslim
University, where the project has been taken up, said the idea behind it is to
raise the standards of education in minority degree colleges.