Students send state legal notice over foreign scholarship

A Pune-based student organisation has issued a legal notice to the state government over new 'restrictive' conditions for students from various socioeconomically backward groups to avail of scholarships for studying in universities abroad.

- Musab Qazi

In its notice, Student Helping Hands has objected to the government increasing the qualifying criteria for the scholarships from a minimum 60% score in the college exam to 75%. It has also criticised scholarship capping of amount to Rs30 lakh for postgraduation courses and Rs40 lakh for PhD.

The student body claimed that the conditions were unjustifiable, unreasonable and contrary to the foreign scholarship scheme.