{"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":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kharge slams Modi govt for snatching scholarships from marginalized communities &#062; Kashmir Media Service<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/02\/26\/kharge-slams-modi-govt-for-snatching-scholarships-from-marginalized-communities.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kharge slams Modi govt for snatching scholarships from marginalized communities &#062; Kashmir Media Service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has strongly criticized the Modi government for usurping funds allocated for scholarships benefiting students from marginalized communities. 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