Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 30: Government of India has asked AICTE to cover all those Kashmiri students who have taken admission in different colleges through Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) for session 2012-13.
The students were denied scholarship due to certain technicalities, like late online registration etc.
National Conference member and Member Parliament, Ghulan Nabi Ratanpuri, said in a statement to media the Government has also accepted to grant the benefit to those students who have erroneously mentioned their admission in management quota but actually taken it in general quota.
Ratanpuri, a member of Parliamentary Consultative Committee for HRD, said this decision was conveyed to him by Chairman of AICTE S.S Mantha.
“The students who may have taken the admission actually in management quota before publication of guidelines excluding such students from PMSSS will also get the scholarship. Another extremely important decision is to grant one time exemption to the students of session 2013-2014 also in respect of five students per institution cap,” the NC member said.
He said all the bonafide students who were otherwise qualified but not among the first five students ( in order of merit) of any institution will be given the scholarship this year i.e., first year, but in the second year they will be shifted/ migrated to other institutions so that maximum five scholars were left per class per institution.
AICTE has been asked to finalise all the scholarships for 2013-14 and left over cases of 2012-2013 within a couple of weeks to clear the uncertainty among the students.
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