{"id":169873,"date":"2025-02-26T14:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T09:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=169873"},"modified":"2025-02-26T14:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T09:04:02","slug":"kharge-slams-modi-govt-for-snatching-scholarships-from-marginalized-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/02\/26\/kharge-slams-modi-govt-for-snatching-scholarships-from-marginalized-communities.html","title":{"rendered":"Kharge slams Modi govt for snatching scholarships from marginalized communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-169874\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/images-33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>New Delhi: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has strongly criticized the Modi government for usurping funds allocated for scholarships benefiting students from marginalized communities.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, in a post on X, Kharge lashed out at the BJP-led Indian government, stating, \u201cNarendra Modi ji, your government has snatched the scholarships of the youth of SC, ST, OBC and minority categories in the country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Backing his claim with official data from budget documents and Rajya Sabha replies, Kharge highlighted the shocking decline in scholarship allocations over the years. He posted a table of the various scholarships and the corresponding decline in funds available to students from Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Communities (OBC) and other minority communities.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data, collated through budget documents and replies given in the Rajya Sabha, Kharge said that pre-matric scholarships for students from SC communities fell by 57% in the last nine years, while those for OBC communities were slashed by 77% in the past five years. He also pointed to a 94% fall in pre-matric scholarship for minorities over four years. For post-matric scholarship schemes, the decline was as follows: 21% dip in the last decade for students from ST communities, 13% decline over nine years for those from SC communities, 58% cut in the same period for OBC, and 83% dip in four years for minorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese shameful government statistics show that the Modi government has not only drastically reduced the beneficiaries in all scholarships, but has also spent 25% less funds on an average year after year,\u201d Kharge said.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a dig at the BJP\u2019s rhetoric, he added, \u201cYour slogan of \u2018Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas\u2019 mocks the aspirations of the weaker sections every day\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has strongly criticized the Modi government for usurping funds allocated for scholarships benefiting students from marginalized communities. According to Kashmir Media Service, in a post on X, Kharge lashed out at the BJP-led Indian government, stating, \u201cNarendra Modi ji, your government has snatched the scholarships of the youth of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/images-33.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169875,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169873\/revisions\/169875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}