Rs 1,950 crore for Rajiv Vidya Mission in AP

RAJAHMUNDRY: Union minister of state for human resource development Daggubati Purandeswari said in the 12th Five Year Plan, a fund of `1,950 crore was allocated to AP for Rajiv Vidya Mission. Additional funds would be sanctioned after verifying the fund utilisation certificate of the Mission, she said.Speaking to newsmen at Cherukuri Veerraju Kalyana Mandapam on Thursday, she said the UPA Government is committed to get the women’s reservation bill passed at the earliest.To relieve students of exam stress, she said the Centre was contemplating holding the common entrance test for engineering students from 2013.