After reports of delay in granting pre and post matric scholarship to Scheduled Caste students in Punjab, the State Government on Saturday claimed there was no procedural delay on part of the Government in disbursing scholarship.
A spokesperson of the Welfare Department said that the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India (GoI) had released a sum of Rs 280.81 crore under the Post Matric scheme on November 1, 2013. He claimed that the state government had released the scholarship immediately after getting funds from the Union government.
The spokesperson further said that under the scheme a website www.punjabscholarships.gov.in was started in 2013-14 and the students were asked to apply for scholarship online on it. Under this scheme scholarship was disbursed after getting the lists from DPI (Colleges), DPI (Secondary Education), Director Technical Education Punjab, Director Research and Medical Education, Director SCERT Punjab and Director Animal Husbandry.