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New Delhi : The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the provision of 70 lakh scholarships to students from the minority communities under its pre-matric, post-matric and merit-cum-means based schemes till the year 2020. Union Minister of Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad told a media conference that under the three schemes, the government provided 60 lakh scholarships to students of this category during 2017-18. "To meet the next target of 70 lakh scholarships, the total expenditure is going to be Rs 5,338.32 crore," he said. The Minister also said that technology is...