CPM MP Hannan Mollah has complained that the government departments in the states are not cooperating with students trying to avail themselves of the government programme to award scholarships to needy students from the minority community. Mollah, who has recently toured Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, has said government departments and schools were avoiding publicising the scheme and not issuing application forms to students to enable them to avail themselves of these scholarships. He said even if some students were downloading these forms from the internet there was no one to help them out to fill up these forms. And children from villages do not even have educated parents to guide them in this regard. The schools are refusing to accept the applications, pleading ignorance about such a scheme. Mollah has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, HRD minister Arjun Singh and minority affairs minister A.R. Antulay and requested that proper arrangements should be made to help out students to avail of this “good” government scheme. He has also requested that since so far these facilities were not available to the needy minority students the last date of submission of applications August 31 extended by another month September 30. “Otherwise only 5-10 per cent will be able to avail of this opportunity,” Mollah pleaded.
GOVT. SCHEMES OUT OF REACH OF MINORITIES: CPM
CPM MP Hannan Mollah has complained that the government departments in the states are not cooperating with students trying to avail themselves of the government programme to award scholarships to needy students from the minority community.
