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With the academic session 2019-20 nearing completion, more than 1 lakh students of Classes I to VIII enrolled in government schools of different districts of Jammu division are yet to receive uniforms.

The HRD Ministry under its flagship scheme of Samagra Shiksha provides two sets of school uniforms free to each student in government schools every year. For this, the School Education Department is provided with a unit cost of Rs 600, which was Rs 400 till last year. Overall, as many as 6,81,833 students have been enrolled in Class I to XII in 12,354 government schools of Jammu province.