Chandigarh, January 24, 2017: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has not only promised to reserve the slot of deputy chief ministerial to dalits and released a detailed separate manifesto listing their priorities for the downtrodden community in Punjab but he party has miserably failed to disburse even their legitimate share aimed to promote education among them.
Making this deft observation on the functioning of AAP government viz-a vis dalits in Delhi, Manjinder Singh Sirsa ,SAD spokesman and advisor to deputy chief minister, said that a steep fall is witnessed in disbursal of scholarship to students of schedule castes and backward classes’ students in all categories is serious reflection that the AAP government is apathetic towards their welfare,
The explanation offered by the AAP government that the fall in disbursal of stipend was because of fall in enrolment is ludicrous and stunning as it indicates that youth from these communities are abandoning studies in large numbers. This fall in enrolment should ring alarm bells with the government for its failure to inspire its people to take education, he added.
Sirsa said that the decline in disbursal of stipend is far more than fall in enrolment as is evident from the statistics churned out by Delhi government itself.
For instance, there is shortfall of 1.8 percent in enrolment overall but it is just only 1 (one) percent in case of SC stundents while fall in disbursal of stipend is whopping 9.3 percent, said Sirsa adding that the other startling facts are as under:
1) SC/ST/OBC stipends for school children decreased from 7,50,021 in 2014-15 to 6,79,976 in 2015-16 – showing a shortfall of 70,045.
2) In higher education(College and university education), a short fall in vicinity of 40 percent was witnessed.
3) Under other scheme aimed to compensate for tuition fee SC/ST/OBC studnes , the number of beneficiaries were reduced by 300 , showing a shortfall of more than ten percent.
4) The worst effected were vocational courses where 2062 students were given fellowship in 2014-15 while none had been given the benefit in the current session.
This exposes the anti-dalit face of the AAP and Punjabis, especially from the SC community which constitutes nearly one third of the electorate, should think twice before voting for their nominees.
The AAP would not only discontinue all the ongoing welfare schemes including those of the Union government and also launch none as the party comprises lumpens and goons out to grab power for self aggrandizement and self promotion of its leaders.