Karnataka govt initiates e-RUPI disbursement for education scholarship
The Hindu
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), State Bank of India (SBI), and Department of e-Governance, Government of Karnataka, have partnered for enabling and implementing e-RUPI, a cashless and c
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), State Bank of India (SBI), and Department of e-Governance, Government of Karnataka, have partnered for enabling and implementing e-RUPI, a cashless and contactless payment solution to students under its scholarship programme.
e-RUPI would be used to ensure a leak-proof delivery of education fees of eligible students by paying digitally to the college/institute by the state government. The state goverment would get e-vouchers delivered to the mobiles of eligible students, according to a release.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.