SC Post-Matric Scholarship: Punjab To Pay 40 Per Cent Arrears Of Private Institutions

The cabinet, which held a virtual meeting chaired by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, decided that the CM will take up the issue of the balance 60 per cent pending arrears with the Prime Minister, an official statement said.

The Punjab government on Friday decided to pay 40 per cent of the Rs 200 crore arrears of private educational institutions against the post-matric scholarship scheme for SC students, for the period 2017-18 to 2019-20. The cabinet, which held a virtual meeting chaired by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, decided that the CM will take up the issue of the balance 60 per cent pending arrears with the Prime Minister, an official statement said. It further said that the cabinet, while approving the report submitted by the Group of Ministers (GoM), decided that the government will give these arrears to private institutions in three equal quarterly instalments during the year 2021-22. The GoM, comprising Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal, Social Justice, Empowerment & Minorities Minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, Higher Education Minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa and Technical Education Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, was constituted on January 14, 2021 to look into the difficulties faced in the implementation of the scheme.