Calls for in Lok Sabha to revive pre-matric scholarship, Maulana Azad Fellowship for minorities

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NEW DELHI: A number of parliamentarians on Tuesday demanded in Lok Sabha that the pre-matric scholarship and Maulana Azad Fellowship for minority scholars be restored, announcing how will the rustic growth if the minority communities are left at the back of.

The Maulana Azad Fellowship for minority scholars pursuing upper schooling has been scrapped whilst the federal government’s pre-matric scholarship for them will not observe to scholars from Elegance 1 to Elegance 8.

A number of Muslim MPs raised the call for of bringing again the scholarships.

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All the way through a dialogue at the supplementary calls for for grants, BSP MP Danish Ali mentioned the pre-matric scholarship and Maulana Azad Fellowship should be restored.

“Everybody must be taken alongside for the prosperity of the rustic. How are you able to go away minorities at the back of and prosper?” AIMIM MP Syed Imitiaz Jaleel additionally raised the call for, asking how will minority scholars find out about and growth if this fellowship is stopped.

Elevating the problem of the schooling of minorities, Samajwadi Birthday celebration member S T Hasan mentioned the federal government will have to restart the scholarships it has accomplished away with just like the Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship.

All India United Democratic Entrance (AIUDF) leader Badruddin Ajmal additionally demanded that the scholarships be restored and known as for reinforcing the funds for minorities to supply schooling to them.

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In a written answer within the Lok Sabha, Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani had mentioned the federal government supplied fellowship for upper schooling thru quite a lot of schemes, together with the Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship, applied through other ministries or departments.

Some of these schemes, excluding the Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship, are open for applicants of all communities, together with minorities, however the information of fellowship dispensed amongst minority scholars is captured simplest underneath the Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship scheme, she had mentioned.

“Because the MANF (Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship) scheme overlaps with quite a lot of different fellowship schemes for upper schooling being applied through the federal government and minority scholars are already coated underneath such schemes, therefore the federal government has determined to discontinue the MANF Scheme from 2022-23,” Irani had mentioned.

NEW DELHI: A number of parliamentarians on Tuesday demanded in Lok Sabha that the pre-matric scholarship and Maulana Azad Fellowship for minority scholars be restored, announcing how will the rustic growth if the minority communities are left at the back of.

The Maulana Azad Fellowship for minority scholars pursuing upper schooling has been scrapped whilst the federal government’s pre-matric scholarship for them will not observe to scholars from Elegance 1 to Elegance 8.

A number of Muslim MPs raised the call for of bringing again the scholarships.

ALSO READ | Kharge hits out at Modi government for preventing scholarships for minority scholars

All the way through a dialogue at the supplementary calls for for grants, BSP MP Danish Ali mentioned the pre-matric scholarship and Maulana Azad Fellowship should be restored.

“Everybody must be taken alongside for the prosperity of the rustic. How are you able to go away minorities at the back of and prosper?” AIMIM MP Syed Imitiaz Jaleel additionally raised the call for, asking how will minority scholars find out about and growth if this fellowship is stopped.

Elevating the problem of the schooling of minorities, Samajwadi Birthday celebration member S T Hasan mentioned the federal government will have to restart the scholarships it has accomplished away with just like the Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship.

All India United Democratic Entrance (AIUDF) leader Badruddin Ajmal additionally demanded that the scholarships be restored and known as for reinforcing the funds for minorities to supply schooling to them.

READ HERE | ‘Repair scholarship for minority scholars of Categories 1-8’, Stalin tells PM

In a written answer within the Lok Sabha, Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani had mentioned the federal government supplied fellowship for upper schooling thru quite a lot of schemes, together with the Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship, applied through other ministries or departments.

Some of these schemes, excluding the Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship, are open for applicants of all communities, together with minorities, however the information of fellowship dispensed amongst minority scholars is captured simplest underneath the Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship scheme, she had mentioned.

“Because the MANF (Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship) scheme overlaps with quite a lot of different fellowship schemes for upper schooling being applied through the federal government and minority scholars are already coated underneath such schemes, therefore the federal government has determined to discontinue the MANF Scheme from 2022-23,” Irani had mentioned.