New Delhi : HRD Minister Smriti Irani on Saturday announced that IIT admission fees of Partapgarh brothers Raju and Brijesh, sons of a daily wager, would be waived even as support poured in from several quarters including Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. The two brothers’ “registration fees will be waived and (they) will be eligible for scholarships that cover tuition, mess and other charges,” Irani tweeted, after the plight of the family to arrange the fees appeared in sections of media.
Raju (18) and Brijesh (19), sons of a daily wager from Rehua Lalganj village in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh, have cleared the IIT Advanced examinations earlier this.
