 bill no 35 of  2012 the provision of free medical and engineering education to meritorious students bill, 2012 by shri ramen deka, mp a billto provide for free medical and engineering education to meritorious students who are economically weak and for matters connected therewithbe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-third year of the republic of india as follows:—1  (1)  this act may be called the provision of free medical and engineering educationto meritorious students act, 2012short title, extent and commencement(2) it extends to the whole of india (3) it shall come into force on such date as the central government may, by notificationin the official gazette, appointdefinitions2 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—(a) "appropriate government" means in the case of a state, the government of that state and in all other cases, the central government;(b) "economically weak student" means a student whose family income from all sources is not more than rupees two thousand per month;(c) "meritorious student" means a student,—5(i) who obtains such marks or grade in a school examination, as may be prescribed, and gets selected in a medical or engineering course on the basis of such marks or grade; or(ii) who gets selected in a medical or engineering course on the basis of rank secured by him in a state or national level entrance examination conducted for the purpose of admitting students into medical or engineering course; and10(d) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this act 3 (1) the appropriate government shall provide free medical or engineering education to every meritorious student who is economically weakexplanation— for the purpose of this section, free education includes,—(a) all expenses incurred on admission and tuition fees;provision of free medical or e n g i n e e r i n g education to economically weak students15(b) books and stationery items;(c) hostel facilities, wherever necessary; and(d) scholarships, in such cases, as may be prescribed 4 the central government shall, after due appropriation made by parliament, in this behalf, provide adequate funds to the state governments for the purposes of this actcentral government to provide funds5 the provisions of this act shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any other law for the time being in force regulating any of the matters provided in this act20provisions of the act not to be in derogation of any other law for the time being in forcepower to make rules6 (1) the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this act2530(2) every rule made under this act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each house of parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both the houses agree that the rule should not be made,  the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule statement of objects and reasonsmost of the parents aspire to make their children either a doctor  or an engineer and most of the youth studying in the schools also have the same desire however, there are many extraordinarily brilliant students whose dreams are not realised only due to poverty medical and engineering education is so expensive that even middle class families cannot afford to provide this education to their children for this reason, a large number of meritorious students are not able to get admission in medical or engineering collegessince our country is a welfare state, it is our duty to provide opportunity to such poor but meritorious students to continue the courses of  their interest and fulfil their life's ambition financial memorandumclause 3 of the bill provides for free medical and engineering education by the appropriate government for meritorious students, who are economically weak it also provides for scholarships and certain other facilities to those students clause 4 provides that the central government shall, after due appropriation, provide adequate funds to the state governments for the purposes of this act the bill, therefore, if enacted, would involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is estimated that a sum of rupees fifty crore is likely to be involved as a recurring expenditure per annumno non-recurring expenditure is likely to be involved memorandum regarding delegated legislationclause 6 of the bill empowers the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of the bill these rules will relate to matters of detail only the delegation of legislative power is, therefore, of a  normal character———— a billto provide for free medical and engineering education to meritorious students who are economically weak and for matters connected therewith————(shri ramen deka, mp)gmgipmrnd—4857ls(s3)—16-4-2012