While both the Union government and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) emphasise providing education loans to every needy and deserving student, a much more prudent question is: are the loans reaching the poor, as per the mandate of the education-loan policy to benefit poor students, that has been in place since 2001?
Members of Tollgate Virodhi Horata Samithi of Surathkal have warned that Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari will be welcomed with black flags if the ‘illegal’ toll gate functioning at Surathkal on national highway was not closed down immediately. Samithi convener Muneer Katipalla said that a memorandum has been submitted to Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin