PRAYAGRAJ, April 24 -- Doing away with the offline mode for Sanskrit students to apply for the scholarships, the state government has decided to make the process completely online.

For this, a dedicated portal is being developed, said officials of the state secondary education department.

Since last year, the state government has been giving scholarships to all Sanskrit students enrolled in classes 6 onwards up to post graduation level. Each student gets from Rs.50 to Rs.250 per month as part of the initiative, they added.

There are 403 government-aided Sanskrit degree colleges and 570 government and government-aided Sanskrit secondary schools in the state.

With the aim of promoting Sanskrit education, the state government had decided...