Release grant for SC ST students

Updated on: Monday, May 02, 2011

The Bombay high court directed the Maharashtra government to disburse an amount of Rs 226.20 crore - a grant for students from scheduled castes and tribes as well as denotified tribes (SC/ ST, DTNT) enrolled in private aided schools.

A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice D G Karnik has directed the government to release the amount in two weeks and pay it to the schools concerned in two weeks thereafter. Government pleader Dhairyasheel Nalavade sought a stay of eight weeks on the order, which the court declined. The directive was issued on a PIL filed by Naresh Gosavi and other parents claiming that as the government failed to disburse grant to private aided and unaided schools under the free education scheme, their children were not permitted to attend classes.

The petitioner’s advocate Gayatri Singh argued that Rs 2,204 crore was lying idle with the social welfare department. She added that the government has used around Rs 332 crore for the purpose.

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