Restructuring of minority scholarship won t affect amount and beneficiaries: Kerala CM
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Last Updated: Aug 04, 2021, 12:24 PM IST
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan reiterated that restructuring of the minority student scholarship will not result in any reduction in the amount of scholarship and number of beneficiaries. The CM also said that his government will be going for an appeal against the Kerala High Court order to ensure that minority scholarship benefit is provided equally to all the notified minorities based on their population numbers.
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan reiterated that restructuring of the minority student scholarship will not result in any reduction in the amount of scholarship and number of beneficiaries. He also said, during the question and answer hour in the Assembly, that all those who are eligible for a scholarship under the scheme, would get it and to ensure the funds
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Govt. told to provide scholarship equally and as per population census
A 2015 Kerala government order allocating the merit-cum-means scholarship for minority communities to Muslims and Latin Catholic Christians and Converted Christians together in the 80:20 ratio was struck down by the Kerala High Court.
A Division Bench of the court consisting of Chief Justice S. Manikumar and Justice Shaji P. Chaly noted that the action of the State government in subclassifying the minorities and providing the scholarship at 80:20 ratio was legally unsustainable.
The court also directed the State government to pass requisite and appropriate orders for providing the scholarship to the members of the notified minority communities equally and in accordance with the latest population census available with the State Minority Commission.