NEW DELHI, May 13:
Educational institutions covered under the centrally-sponsored post-matric scholarship scheme for Scheduled Caste students will have to ensure that at least 50 per cent of the beneficiaries pass and move to higher class, failing which they will be blacklisted.
This is part of the revised norms notified yesterday by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
The revision of the norms is aimed at checking malpractice by educational institutions, said a senior ministry official.
“There have been cases where educational institutes have pocketed large amount of scholarship amount under the post-matric scholarship scheme for SCs by showing fake admissions. Or the educational institutions would admit students and get the scholarship amount and not teach them properly as a result of which the students would fail. The revised norms will put an end to such malpractice,” the official said. (PTI)
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