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Allocation of loans for SC/ST students hiked manifold: Govt
PTI | 10:03 PM,Mar 24,2011
New Delhi, Mar 24 (PTI) Government today said it had increased
allocation of loans for SC/ST scholarships manifold and was aiming to
provide the benefit to 40 lakh pre-metric students from this category.
Speaking in the Lok Sabha on a discussion to the answer given by
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on March 11, his deputy Namo Narain
Meena said the education loans to SC/ST students was Rs 273 crore in
2003-04 but stood at Rs 2,252 crore in 2009-10. He said the percentage
of SC/ST students covered under the loans from this category was 17.69
per cent of their population. For loans to SC/ST on agri-business, a
special cell has been established in public sector banks, the Minister
of State for Finance said. Opposition members, especially those from
the BJP, countered the claims made by Meena, saying these provisions
were already there and the main issue was their proper implementation.
They claimed no cells had been established in banks for SC/ST. Jyoti
Dhurve (BJP), who had asked for the half-hour discussion on
Mukherjee's reply, raised some important points during her
presentation. "The SC and ST have are not getting dues. What is the
reason behind the poor development of these communities despite
spending a lot of money by the government. I think that they have not
got their due," she said. Dhurve also talked about the unaffordable
education finance which is hampering the growth of downtrodden in the
country and pointed out that the rate of interest on such loans is as
high 11 per cent. She demanded cheaper education loans for the SC and
ST students. Shailendra Kumar (SP) said the enumeration of SC/ST
population has till now not been done properly, as a result of which
the real number of those living below the poverty line is not known.
He said provisions should be made for giving reservations to SC/ST in
private sector as well. Arjun Meghwal (BJP) said the government should
find out how many banks have not met their target of providing loans
to SC/ST under its DRI scheme. He insisted that government should
provide for coaching classes for SC/ST students. Paramjeet Kaur
Gulshan (SAD) said the minister's answer was way off the mark and
sought to know who are the beneficiaries of the government schemes for
SC/ST. She complained that the loan never reaches the intended
beneficiaries at the ground level.
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