Over 8,500 have applied for Mitra's undergrad tuition subsidy

PUTRAJAYA:A total of 8,583 applications have been made to the Malaysian Indian Community Transformation Unit's (Mitra) tuition assistance subsidy programme for B40 Indian undergraduate students as of Aug 31.

Mitra Special Vehicle Committee chairman Datuk Ramanan Ramakrishnan said the grant, involving RM20mil, has been distributed to 3,193 students attending public and private universities with subsidies worth RM6.38mil.