|
India’s Minorities panel raps
Punjab Govt
WSN Network
CHANDIGARH:
India’s National Minorities Commission members have expressed
concern and unhappiness at the failure of the Badal government to
disburse scholarships worth Rs 8 crore to students belonging to
minority communities, though many see the move as politically
motivated.
HS Hanspal and
Splazes Angmo, members, National Commission for Minorities,
Government of India, were in Chandigarh to review the implementation
of a 15-point programme of the Centre.
Hanspal told
reporters that Punjab government had delayed giving these
scholarships by six months. “These were to be given out by April,”
he said. There are over 1.7 lakh pre-matric students and 8,000 post-matric
students who are to be given these scholarships in the state.
Splazes said the state government was also asked to explain why
there was a delay in the disbursal of the scholarships for which
state officials only had “lame excuses.”
When asked about
the constitution of the state minorities commission, Hanspal said
the commission would be writing to the Punjab Chief Minister to
expedite the formation of such a commission. “We have been told that
the formation of the commission is under active consideration of the
state government,” he said.
18
November 2009
|
Read Also