Centre drastically cuts grant for minority scholarship in Gujarat

According to the details given by Vora to one of Parmar’s questions, in 2014-15, the Gujarat government had sought a total grant of Rs 12334.52 lakh (or Rs 123.3 crore) from the central government for pre-matric, post-matric and merit-cum-Means scholarships for minorities. Against this, the central government had granted Rs 8600.86 lakh (Rs 86 crore).

However, the grant for the same three categories went down drastically for 2015-16. For this period, the Gujarat government sought a grant of Rs 4780.42 lakh (Rs 47.8 crore) from the Centre, but it received only Rs 51.08 lakh.

Later in a press statement, Parmar said: “On the one hand, the government is talking of minorities’ education, and on the other hand, due to non-allotment of scholarship grants, the education of minority communities was being hampered.”