Fed up with the long delay in arrival of scholarships the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Class (OBC) students undertook a vociferous protest at the office of District Social Welfare Officer on Thursday.
The students undertook a gherao of the District Social welfare officer. The former president of DAV student union Kamlesh Bhatt said that the students were forced to make many rounds of the office for their scholarship.
He claimed that the students were paying the price of procrastination of employees of the department who deliberately delay the work. Bhatt who led the agitators said that the students from far flung areas like Vikasnagar and Kalsi are spending money on travelling to visit the office of social welfare department but every time they had to return without the scholarships. The agitators claimed that the many students have not received the scholarships for the year 2013-14 too.
When contacted the District Social Welfare officer Ramavtar claimed that scholarship applications approved by the concerned institutes have been processed and the students have got them in their bank account. He said that he would look in the matter of the those still deprived with the scholarships.