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Nagpur, The tuition fee ie scholarship amount is given to the students of SC, ST, VJ, NT, SBC, OBC and EBC, EWS category in engineering colleges by the central and state government. For private colleges, this amount is helpful in running the system, but from the academic session 2021-22, the government has not paid more than 40 percent of the tuition fee scholarship amount to engineering as well as polytechnic, architecture, MBA, pharmacy etc. colleges. .
This is the reason why it has become difficult to meet the salaries of professors and other expenses. Now the same situation has remained in the new session as well. About a month is left for March 31, but till now the amount has not been released. The government has also withheld the amount of 100 percent scholarship for the session 2022-23.
About 6 months ago, the central government had paid 60% of the amount of tuition fee scholarship in the bank account of some students belonging to the Scheduled Caste category, but due to non-deposit of the amount deposited in the bank account by many students, the colleges were facing financial difficulties. Had to bear the loss. Due to this attitude of the central and state government, the economic condition is getting worse.
…then will knock the door of the court
Due to non-receipt of funds, salaries of non-teaching staff including professors are getting delayed. This has created an atmosphere of dissatisfaction among the employees. In this regard, President and MLA of Vidarbha Un-Aided Engineering College Management Association Abhijit Vanjari, General Secretary Avinash Dorasatwar and Senate member of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Ajay Agarwal met State Chief Secretary Manukumar Srivastava at Mantralaya, Mumbai and announced scholarship as soon as possible. demanded the release of an amount of Rs.
During the discussion, Srivastava told that by issuing instructions to the secretaries of Social Justice Department, Tribal Department, Other Backward Classes Department and Higher and Technical Education Department, efforts will be made to pay the pending amount for the academic year 2021-22 and 2022-23. Dorsatwar said that on behalf of the association, all the organizations under the leadership of Kiran Pandav will attract attention by meeting Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis during the budget session. Even after this, if the amount is released, then a petition will be filed in the High Court against the Central and State Government.
