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Maharashtra: This son of a shepherd needs your help...
Updated On: 05 July, 2023 07:23 AM IST | Mumbai | Rian Khorana
Saurabh Hatkar, who collected 12,000 postcards with demands of his community and sent them to the CM, aims to go abroad and return with knowledge to better their lives
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Saurabh Hatkar (with the mic) talks to shepherds
After spending months last year travelling to the interiors of Maharashtra to give a voice to shepherds, 29-year-old Saurabh Hatkar, is now going to approach the government seeking help for himself. Hatkar is headed to meet the state’s ministers at the monsoon Assembly session to be held this month, to request the government for monetary help in the form of a scholarship so he can study at the University of Edinburgh. His research topic is shepherds’ livelihood.
The cost of tuition for a year is Rs 25,86,864 plus living expenses and the course is for three years. Hatkar is an OBC under denotified and nomadic tribes. He said the government has kept 50 seats for scholarships abroad for OBCs. He is also demanding more seats for OBCs as they have the most population with the least amount of seats. He wants 75 seats for OBC, out of which 10 seats should be for denotified and nomadic tribes.
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