India, Sept. 26 -- LUCKNOW Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday emphasised that the economic progress of any nation or state begins with education, and it is the government's responsibility to provide students with better educational opportunities. He announced that the state government has arranged funds to disburse scholarships to nearly five lakh students from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes who were previously left out due to institutions failing to upload their data on time.

"All students deprived of scholarships will have the funds sent to their accounts before Diwali. Furthermore, accountability will be fixed for those whose actions prevented students from receiving the scholarship so that such errors do not occur in the...