Tripura government will restart the ‘schemes to bring dropouts back to schools.

• The Tripura government will restart the ‘Vidyalaya Chalo Abhiyan’ after 8,850 school students were found to have dropped out from schools across Tripura during the covid-19 pandemic.
• The government has also announced a unique scheme called ‘Earn with Learn’

Under the Earn with Learn scheme:

• The college students will be given a remuneration for identifying and convincing students to re-join schools. They will get Rs 500 for each admission,” the teachers who will get involved in the project will be given Rs 200 for each admission.
• The government has decided to give away free school bags to more than 1.51 lakh students studying in pre-primary to Class III. It has been estimated to involve funding of over Rs 7.58 crore.
• Tripura has over 4,000 government schools along with those that are aided by the state.
• At present, the government is giving free books and school uniforms for girl, scheduled caste, scheduled tribe and below poverty line students of Classes I to VIII.