Demanding that the choice to scrap ST scholarships for management-quota college students be withdrawn, members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged a protest exterior Birsa Munda Bhawan in Gandhinagar on Thursday.
The coed organisation additionally submitted a illustration to Minister for Tribal Improvement, Kuber Dindor, detailing their demand.
The state tribal growth division had issued a notification on October 28 declaring that college students admitted beneath the administration quota might be ineligible for the put up matric-scholarship for ST (Scheduled Tribes) candidates.
“The notification needs to be cancelled. Additionally, present college students beneath administration quota needs to be authorised for the scholarship until they full their schooling and admission given to college students on the vacant seats be thought of as state quota,” the ABVP demanded in its illustration.
The state authorities’s tribal growth division had issued a notification for post-matric scholarship following revised tips from the central authorities on this regard. Earlier, scholarships have been provided to college students of each free and paid seats.
“The rules have been revised after a number of discrepancies have been detected amongst beneficiaries of this scheme. The federal government will not be declining scholarship however (giving it) to solely real college students. A number of circumstances, a majority in Mehsana, Patan and Banaskantha districts, got here to gentle the place total schools have been stuffed with tribal college students. This can be a query of stopping precise tribal college students from receiving this monetary help. This (scholarship) might be provided to solely merit-based college students and never ghost or lacking college students the place schools are siphoning these funds within the identify of such college students,” a senior authorities official instructed The Indian Categorical.
As per the central authorities’s revised tips for post-matric scheme, scholarship has been scrapped for college students on administration quota for the educational yr 2024-25.
The notification additional clarified that authorities quota seats which might be transformed to administration quota seats after falling vacant will even not be eligible for the scholarship.
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