The Prime Minister's 15-Point Programme for the welfare of minorities which was announced about a decade ago, provides a pre-matric scholarship scheme for meritorious students belonging to minority communities. The applications for the scholarship have to be submitted online on the National Scholarship Portal (NSP). However, in 2015-16 there was a major glitch in the website's form filling, causing difficulty for parents and students to renew their scholarships, revealed a reply to an RTI filed by Razaullah Khan, an activist from the NGO Movement for Peace and Justice.
As many as 7,17,896 students had applied for the renewal of scholarships, out of which forms of only 3,30,776 students were accepted. The other 3,87,120 students were denied a renewal because of the glitch in the website. Meanwhile, there was an option of submitting forms offline as well, which the students and their respective wards and teachers filled, but the hard copies of the forms sent to minority and adult education directorate in Pune, have not yet been registered, thereby being denied of the scholarship renewal, a letter from Razaullah Khan to the Education Minister Vinod Tawade revealed.
The scholarship aimed at pre-matric level, is to encourage the parents to send their children to schools, to reduce their expenditure on education and to educate children. The scholarship is pertinent to the students scoring more than 50% marks in the final examination and whose parents' or guardians' annual income is less than Rs. 1 lakh.
Source: Glitch in Govt Scholarship
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