He said: “”BSc-reserved nursing seats have been increased from one to 10 and there will be two more for general nursing and five more seats for MSc nursing. This will be a great boon to women of the community.”

He lauded another move by primary and secondary education department, which increased annual fee concession for Anglo-Indian children studying in English-medium schools to Rs 5,000 from Rs 3,000 per student. “I’d requested the minister in 2008 and it has been implemented. But several Anglo-Indian students studying in SSLC board schools need this concession as it’s currently only for ICSE syllabus students,” he said.

He mentioned several problems the community faces and urged the government to look into them. “Housing is a major problem. We request the CM to help them by providing BDA sites. Hardly has any Anglo-Indian obtained an Ashraya site or house provided by the government since 1993,” he said. Another issue was community halls: “We don’t have a community hall and we request the government to provide at least one community hall out of several unused ones and I’ll get the renovation done from my MLA fund.”

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / TNN / Aug 04th, 2010