Restructure Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme, says Chief Minister
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Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Thursday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to subject appropriate instructions to the Union Ministry of Social Justice to restructure the Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme, with a 60:40 sharing sample between the Centre and the States.
In his letter to Mr. Modi, the Chief Minister referred to the idea of the applying of dedicated legal responsibility in releasing the funds beneath the Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme to Tamil Nadu. He identified that earlier, the expenditure beneath the scheme on the finish of every five-year plan interval was taken because the dedicated legal responsibility of the State for the subsequent interval.
“Although the practice of five-year planning was given up after the end of the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-2017), the earlier practice of re-fixing the State’s Committed Liability at the end of five years has been continued. As a result, the committed liability of Tamil Nadu, which was ₹353.55 crore in 2012-13, with effect from 2017-18, has risen to ₹1,526.46 crore,” Mr. Palaniswami underlined.
As a end result, though the State spent ₹1689.34 crore on the scheme in 2017-18, ₹1,910.19 crore in 2018-19 and ₹2,005.70 crore in 2019-20, it obtained solely ₹162.88 crore, ₹383.73 crore and ₹479.24 crore respectively because the Central share for these years. In this 12 months (2020-21), for a complete anticipated expenditure of ₹2,110.90 crore, Tamil Nadu shall be eligible to obtain solely ₹584.44 because the Central share. “This has placed an extremely high burden on the State government’s finances,” he mentioned.
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