Students admitted from vacant seats too get scholarship

By Vikas Vaidya

The students who got admission in the colleges of professional courses through vacant seats after completion of Centralised Admission Process (CAP) will too get scholarship.
Maharashtra Government’s Social Welfare Department has issued a circular through which it has relaxed the earlier condition of alloting scholarship only to those students who got admitted through CAP.
The students of Scheduled Caste get scholarship from Central Government. The admission process for any professional courses is conducted in three or four rounds. Most of the colleges surrender their seats in CAP. Till last year the scholarship was given to those students who got admission during those rounds. If the seats remained vacant after all rounds then competent authority asks the colleges to fill up those seats on their own. In that case students were not eligible to get the scholarship. Such students had to pay whatever the fees colleges charge.
Now Social Welfare department has brought the change. The students who do not get admission during all the rounds of CAP but colleges admit them after completion of all rounds still the students would get the scholarship.
The Social Welfare department has made it clear that no authority should made the students mandatory that he would get scholarship only if he gets admission during CAP round. Those who do not certify the bills of such students for getting scholarship will be held responsible.
This move is being welcomed by colleges and students also. Many SC students failing to get admission during CAP rounds, were not able to take admission afterwards to the respective colleges due to financial problems. Due to this, the seats in the colleges too used to remain vacant. Now that block has been removed.