NEW DELHI, Apr 15:
A Parliamentary Standing Committee has pulled up the Government over shortage of fund for providing Post Matric Scholarship to Scheduled Tribe students.
The Standing Committee of Social Justice and Empowerment said that due to fund crisis, the Post Matric Scholarship, which provides financial assistance to Tribal students studying at post-matriculation or Post-Secondary levels was “not doing well”.
The panel said that the scholarship enables the tribal students to complete their education. While holding the Tribal Affairs Ministry responsible for the situation, the panel said, “The Ministry was playing with the life and future of these ST students who with great difficulties and hardships somehow try to come to mainstream society”.
It also said that the problem of insufficient fund and mounting dues of State Governments was brewing up for the last few years, a fact which has been endorsed by the Tribal Affairs Secretary before the panel but was never addressed by the Ministry. It had however appreciated the interest evinced by the Tribal Affairs Secretary in addressing the issue by taking it up with the Cabinet Secretary.
“The Committee is happy to find now that from the next financial year, the scholarship amount will be directly deposited in students’ account besides clearing the dues of the state governments simultaneously,” the Committee noted. (UNI)
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