Chennai:
The quota for dalit students in private medical colleges could not be filled during the last four years due to the delay in providing post-matric scholarship for the eligible students, according to former bureaucrat and dalit activist Christodas Gandhi.
Hailing the government decision to grant Rs 334.76 crore as
post-matric scholarship on Saturday, former additional chief secretary of Tamil Nadu Gandhi said that the delay in granting the funds by officials to the eligible dalit students has resulted in 30 medical seats getting wasted every year.
“These vacant seats are being filled up by the private medical
colleges who demand hefty donations for them. Each seat would have cost Rs 3 lakh for a dalit students but now they are being sold more than 25 lakh,” Gandhi alleged while addressing a press conference organised by Dalit Panchayat Presidents Association.
Interestingly, last year the officials did not release any amount for the post-matric scholarship. The total outlay under the scheme is Rs 696 crore. “This has affected the studies of many poor dalits who are dependent on the scholarship amount,” he said.
The worst affected are those dalits aspiring to be engineers and
doctors. “We urge the state government to ensure that all those 120 seats that have not been filled up due to the scholarship issue be filled up,” said Gandhi.
He also said that since the government has cleared the amount of Rs 334.76 crore for the year 2015-16, it should also ensure that the pending last year’s sum of Rs 696 crore under post-matric scholarship is cleared.
He hailed the role of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa for her
welfare schemes supporting the downtrodden and blamed the officials for failing to release the amount at the right time.
The federation also urged the government to ensure that the funds under scheduled caste sub plan are not diverted to other popular schemes. The federation also urged the government to spend additional Rs 4,000 crore allocated under SCSP in new schemes rather than the usual schemes.
Nidhi Singh of National Foundation of India urged the state government to have people’s participation in state budget so that it could ensure transparency. She also wanted improved government spending under specific social sectors and for vunerable groups.
She also stressed the need for Gender Responsive Budgeting which should integrate gender in planning, budgeting and auditing cycle and institutional mechanisms and procedures for mainstreaming gender in public policies.
The quota for dalit students in private medical colleges could not be filled during the last four years due to the delay in providing post-matric scholarship for the eligible students, according to former bureaucrat and dalit activist Christodas Gandhi.
Hailing the government decision to grant Rs 334.76 crore as
post-matric scholarship on Saturday, former additional chief secretary of Tamil Nadu Gandhi said that the delay in granting the funds by officials to the eligible dalit students has resulted in 30 medical seats getting wasted every year.
“These vacant seats are being filled up by the private medical
colleges who demand hefty donations for them. Each seat would have cost Rs 3 lakh for a dalit students but now they are being sold more than 25 lakh,” Gandhi alleged while addressing a press conference organised by Dalit Panchayat Presidents Association.
Interestingly, last year the officials did not release any amount for the post-matric scholarship. The total outlay under the scheme is Rs 696 crore. “This has affected the studies of many poor dalits who are dependent on the scholarship amount,” he said.
The worst affected are those dalits aspiring to be engineers and
doctors. “We urge the state government to ensure that all those 120 seats that have not been filled up due to the scholarship issue be filled up,” said Gandhi.
He also said that since the government has cleared the amount of Rs 334.76 crore for the year 2015-16, it should also ensure that the pending last year’s sum of Rs 696 crore under post-matric scholarship is cleared.
He hailed the role of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa for her
welfare schemes supporting the downtrodden and blamed the officials for failing to release the amount at the right time.
The federation also urged the government to ensure that the funds under scheduled caste sub plan are not diverted to other popular schemes. The federation also urged the government to spend additional Rs 4,000 crore allocated under SCSP in new schemes rather than the usual schemes.
Nidhi Singh of National Foundation of India urged the state government to have people’s participation in state budget so that it could ensure transparency. She also wanted improved government spending under specific social sectors and for vunerable groups.
She also stressed the need for Gender Responsive Budgeting which should integrate gender in planning, budgeting and auditing cycle and institutional mechanisms and procedures for mainstreaming gender in public policies.
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