The Union government will bear 60 per cent of the actual expenses under a key scholarship scheme for Dalit students who have cleared Class X, ending a policy that had shifted a major part of the expenses to the states.
Lakhs of Dalit students in several states have not been receiving the fellowship after filling up forms under the Post-Matric Scholarship (PMS) scheme since states are not taking interest due to paucity of funds.
The scheme aims to benefit 60 lakh Dalit students a year, paying their tuition fees and also maintenance fees ranging between Rs 230 and Rs 1,200 per student per month.
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The Economic Survey cites high-frequency data such as exports, factory output and non-food credit growth to up the growth estimate for 2017-18 to 6.75% from 6.5% projected by the Central Statistics Office. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint
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Farm Follies: âYes, Butâ Economists Like Kaushik Basu Are Allowing Politics To Infect Their Critiques
by R Jagannathan - Dec 18, 2020 09:22 AM
Kaushik Basu and Nirvikar Singh
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Kaushik Basu supports the idea of reform but not this specific one, and none of his criticisms is more than partially valid, and some are outright wrong.
Hereâs why.
There are simply too many yes-but economists trying to make the ideal the enemy of the good when it comes to the Narendra Modi governmentâs farm sector reforms. One of them is Cornell Universityâs Kaushik Basu, who was Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) to the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government between 2009 and 2012.
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