The Punjab Government’s online portal — Ashirwad — turned out to be a great hit with the student community with approximately three lakh students applying for scholarship in a single year. The portal was introduced by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal for hassle-free online sanction of post-matric scholarship to the SC students.
“Punjab got another feather in its cap as online registration figure for the post matric scholarship scheme for SCs touched record number of 2,95,344 as on September 30, the last day of online registration,” said the State Welfare Minister Gulzar Singh Ranike. There has been an increase of 35.28 per cent registrations this year. “Online registrations have reached 2,95,344 as compared to last year’s 2,18,323 registering an increase of 77,021 more students have been registered on the Ashirwad portal,” he added.