: Scrapping of Scholarships Will Further Deprive Minority Students, Increase Drop Out Rate and Illiteracy #WorldNEWSAll The pre-matric scholarship has now been limited to Class 9 and 10 in government

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Scrapping of Scholarships Will Further Deprive Minority Students, Increase Drop Out Rate and Illiteracy #WorldNEWSAll
The pre-matric scholarship has now been limited to Class 9 and 10 in government schools only under the OBC category.
At a time when students, parents, academic institutions, were anticipating announcement of some kind of educational welfare schemes by the government as damage control measures to meet the challenges posed by the pandemic, the scrapping of Maulana Azad Scholarship/Fellowship for Minorities has surprised all and sundry.
The scrapping is most likely to further deprive Muslim students from education who are educationally marginalized as per the most of the findings including Sachar Commission Report. Experts believe that display of anti-Muslims policies of the establishment is in full swing to appease the majority community by targeting minorities in one way or the other.
With this move the concept of a welfare state appears to have doomed because political motives overshadowed the concept of social justice. The logic given by the government for scarping scholarship does not match with the situation on the ground, for the affluent and the marginalized sections, rural and urban divide and accommodation of government and private schools.
As per UNESCO, education of over 154 crore students was disrupted across the world after schools were abruptly shut down due to the pandemic. The ministry of education estimates that 3. 5 million kids are not in school right now, including those who quit because of the pandemic.
Since several states are still counting, there is no comprehensive statistics on the precise number of children who have stopped attending school since March 2020, leading NGOs and educational experts think the total to be substantially higher. Another estimate places the number of school dropouts at 20 million children nationwide.
The worldwide COVID-19 outbreak has forced the shutdown of schools. It has impacted the education of almost 290 million kids in India alone. Six million kids were already not attending school. This figure is on the verge of rising as a result of the COVID-19-related economic instability in their families, which is pushing many kids out of school.
Virendra Kumar
As per the government the pre-matric scholarship has now been limited to Class 9 and Class 10 in government schools only under the OBC category. Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Virendra Kumar while replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha, said that it was done in order to rationalise the scholarship.
The pre-matric scholarship has now been limited to Class 9 and 10 in government schools only under the OBC category, he said in a written response. Mr Kumar said the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009 makes it obligatory for the government to provide free and compulsory elementary education (classes 1 to 8) to each and every child.

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