Port Blair, Dec 21: A news item published in one of the local news paper dated 11.12.2015 regarding non-releasing of stipend since four month has been refuted by the Education Department. The fact of the case is, in current year upto 10th Dec, 2015, 835 applications have been received and all of them have been verified with reference to the rule / check list and sanction order has been issued for 810 students.
25 applications have been returned to students for want of documents and they have been advised to give all documents as per prescribed checklist already provided to them. Till date an amount of Rs. 1,39,88,439 has been paid to 488 students. Since budget allotted under B.E 2015-16 has been exhausted, sufficient provision has been provided in R.E 2015-16 to meet the expenditure of remaining 322 students.
However, in the meantime the department has identified certain savings and initiated action for re-appropriating the funds to the tune of Rs. 81.5 lakhs.
Scholarship shall be paid to all the remaining students shortly. Further, it is to inform that the Education Department is in the process of simplifying the application form and introducing an online application portal.
