Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 8: Senior Congress Leader and MLA Inderwal, Ghulam Mohammad Saroori today urged Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Union HRD Minister Simriti Irani to intervene in the non-payment of scholarship to 4,000 students from J&K who got admission under the Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSS).
“He urged Prime Minister to intervene in the matter and ask the HRD Ministry to ensure proper implementation of the scheme”, Saroori said in a statement. Issued here today that Government of India has devised a scheme to provide scholarships to 5,000 students from Jammu and Kashmir every year but during last financial year Human Resource Development (HRD) has placed 9, 000 J&K students under different institutes in the country under PMSSS scheme, but out of them 5,000 students got scholarships through HRD while remaining 4,000 students who had cleared their first and second semesters did not receive the scholarships so far.
As the HRD Ministry has not released the sanctioned amount, colleges are forcing the aggrieved students to either deposit fee or leave college. It is as such requested that Ministry of Human Resource Development may take the call and release the withheld fees for all such students as per the stated policy so as to save career of thousands of students.
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