Previous govt was unfair to 3 lakh SC students: Dharmsot
Sunday, 10/03/2019
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“Punjab Unaided Colleges Association (PUCA) has played a major role to raise the standard of education in the unaided colleges of Punjab and to resolve the problems being faced by the unaided colleges by bridging the gap between the students, parents, staff, management and the government.”
This was stated by Sadhu Sigh Dharmsot, state Minister for Social Welfare, on the fourth foundation day of PUCA.
Dr Anshu Kataria, president, PUCA presided over the function. Apart from PUCA, directors of 12 more associations of JAC were also present on the occasion.
Dharmsot also launched the new website made by PUCA i.e pucapunjab.com. This portal would carry all the relevant information related to the colleges and the affiliating Universities of Punjab to help the students in seeking the admissions.
Dharmsot while speaking on the occasion said that the previous government remained unfair to over three lakh SC students of more than 1,600 colleges of Punjab over the Post Matric Scholarship (PMS) funds. But as soon as this government took the charge not only they have got the audits done but also solved the funds for drop-out cases.
Dharmsot further said that due to one or other reason, the Centre was delaying the payment but with the regular follow ups from state, the Centre has released Rs 323 crore and Rs 284 crore of PMS. Moreover, state has also contributed its own share to it.
Office-bearers of PUCA including Advocate Amit Sharma, senior Vice president; Gurfateh Gill, Vice President;. Gurpreet Singh, General Secretary; Ashok Garg, Treasurer, CA Renu Arora, Joint Secretary-II; Rajesh Garg, MRS-PTU, Bathinda, Dr. Manmohan Garg, Finance Secretary; Manav Dhawan, Tricity Coordinator; Cherry Goyal, Malwa-I Coordinator; Monty Garg, Malwa-II Coordinator, Dr. Akashdeep Singh, Majha Coordinator and Sanjeev Chopra, Doaba Coordinator; Dr. Guninderjit Jwanda Head Scholarship Department were also present on the occasion.
