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A provision of Rs. 313.24 crore was made for the Post-Matric scholarship scheme for Scheduled Castes students under BE 2004-05. However, additional funds were mobilized enough re-appropriation and an expenditure of Rs. 338.27 crore was incurred under the scheme were released to all the States/UTs. However, full demand of the State of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal could not be met due to paucity of funds during the year. In case of the States of Assam, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Manipur also full demand could be met as the progress of expenditure of the funds already released to these States was not intimated by them.
In case of pre-matric scholarship scheme for OBCs, funds could not be released to the State Governments of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Rajasthan as information relating to utilization of funds released during earlier years was not furnished by them. Similarly in case of Karnataka, Punjab and Sikkim, the proposals were not found in order as they were not following the norms of the scheme.
Pre-Matric scholarship scheme is for children of unclean occupations and no proposal is pending under this scheme from any State Government. In case of Post-Matric scheme for OBCs, proposals of Bihar and Pondicherry are pending as the information about utilization of funds released during earlier years has not been furnished. The State Government of Madhya Pradesh is not implementing the scheme and they have been requested to refund the funds released to them earlier.
This was stated in a written reply by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Smt. Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan in Lok Sabha today.
MLD/LK/ sje-70(28.4.)
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