Rajya Sabha MP and BJP national OBC president K. Laxman has demanded on Tuesday that the BRS government make a course correction in ensuring fee reimbursement for all the BC students removing the 10,000 rank ceiling and scholarships be liberally given to all the BC students seeking financial aid to study in universities abroad.
The senior BJP leader participating in the meeting held by Chairman National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) Hansraj Ahir with various government departments, universities to review the quota implementation in Telangana, said the State government which boasts of giving high priority to social welfare should not be denying education benefit having a cut-off based on the entrance test ranking.
He told the NCBC that the government has been restricting the financial aid to the BC students going abroad for further studies to about 350 only per year when at least 10 times the number have been applying for the same. “Why cannot the government provide financial aid to saturation point?” questioned Mr. Laxman.
