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NEW DELHI: Congress member Okay Suresh on Friday termed the scrapping of the Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship (MANF) scheme as an “anti-minority” transfer via the Narendra Modi govt and mentioned the verdict will make upper schooling inaccessible to underprivileged scholars belonging to the minority communities.
Elevating the problem in Lok Sabha throughout 0 Hour, the Congress member additionally mentioned the discontinuation of the fellowship scheme may have a pan-India adversarial have an effect on at the upper schooling of scholars belonging to Muslim, Buddhist, Jain, Christian, Parsi and Sikh communities.
“The transfer is an insult to Maulana Azad. It additionally disregards all of the freedom opponents and their reminiscences of sacrifice,” he charged.
“Up to now, scholars from those six notified minority communities gained monetary help for pursuing upper schooling underneath the scheme which covers all of the establishments recognised via the College Grants Fee,” he mentioned.
“With the discontinuation of the scheme, upper schooling will transform inaccessible to underprivileged scholars from the six notified minority communities,” Suresh added.
The MANF scheme for the minority group scholars pursuing upper schooling has been scrapped whilst the federal government’s pre-matric scholarship for them will not observe to scholars from Magnificence 1 to Magnificence 8.
In a written respond to a query not too long ago within the Lok Sabha, Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani mentioned the federal government equipped fellowships for upper schooling thru quite a lot of schemes, together with the MANF, carried out via other ministries or departments.
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A lot of these schemes, excluding the Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship, are open for applicants of all communities, together with minorities, however the knowledge of fellowship dispensed amongst minority scholars is integrated simplest underneath the Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship scheme, she mentioned.
“For the reason that MANF scheme overlaps with quite a lot of different fellowship schemes for upper schooling being carried out via the federal government and minority scholars are already coated underneath such schemes, therefore the federal government made up our minds to discontinue the MANF Scheme from 2022-23,” Irani had mentioned.
Congress member Suresh termed the rationale cited via the minister for discontinuation of the MANF as an “excuse” and mentioned it defies the common sense as any overlap can have been recognized from the Aadhaar and different paperwork of the scholars making use of for the fellowship underneath the scheme.
“The Anti minority sentiments in the back of the (govt’s) resolution is clear,” he charged.
NEW DELHI: Congress member Okay Suresh on Friday termed the scrapping of the Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship (MANF) scheme as an “anti-minority” transfer via the Narendra Modi govt and mentioned the verdict will make upper schooling inaccessible to underprivileged scholars belonging to the minority communities.
Elevating the problem in Lok Sabha throughout 0 Hour, the Congress member additionally mentioned the discontinuation of the fellowship scheme may have a pan-India adversarial have an effect on at the upper schooling of scholars belonging to Muslim, Buddhist, Jain, Christian, Parsi and Sikh communities.
“The transfer is an insult to Maulana Azad. It additionally disregards all of the freedom opponents and their reminiscences of sacrifice,” he charged.
“Up to now, scholars from those six notified minority communities gained monetary help for pursuing upper schooling underneath the scheme which covers all of the establishments recognised via the College Grants Fee,” he mentioned.
“With the discontinuation of the scheme, upper schooling will transform inaccessible to underprivileged scholars from the six notified minority communities,” Suresh added.
The MANF scheme for the minority group scholars pursuing upper schooling has been scrapped whilst the federal government’s pre-matric scholarship for them will not observe to scholars from Magnificence 1 to Magnificence 8.
In a written respond to a query not too long ago within the Lok Sabha, Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani mentioned the federal government equipped fellowships for upper schooling thru quite a lot of schemes, together with the MANF, carried out via other ministries or departments.
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A lot of these schemes, excluding the Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship, are open for applicants of all communities, together with minorities, however the knowledge of fellowship dispensed amongst minority scholars is integrated simplest underneath the Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship scheme, she mentioned.
“For the reason that MANF scheme overlaps with quite a lot of different fellowship schemes for upper schooling being carried out via the federal government and minority scholars are already coated underneath such schemes, therefore the federal government made up our minds to discontinue the MANF Scheme from 2022-23,” Irani had mentioned.
Congress member Suresh termed the rationale cited via the minister for discontinuation of the MANF as an “excuse” and mentioned it defies the common sense as any overlap can have been recognized from the Aadhaar and different paperwork of the scholars making use of for the fellowship underneath the scheme.
“The Anti minority sentiments in the back of the (govt’s) resolution is clear,” he charged.