By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Phulwari Sharif (Patna): Maulana Anisur Rahman Quasmi, general secretary, Imarat Shariah (Bihar, Jharkhand & Orissa), said more than 5 thousand applications for post- matric scholarship for minorities could not be sent to the concerned office in time.
In a press statement released on 11th April, Maulana Quasmi said those applications could not be sent to the office of National Commission for Minorities on account of negligence of officers of Bihar State Minority Commission. Because of this negligence, he alleged, fund allocated in central budget for the state for this purpose has lapsed.
The Central government had launched a scheme to give scholarship to the students of minority communities from post-matric to PhD. classes.
Maulana Quasmi urged Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to set up an enquiry into the negligence and demanded that scholarships should be provided to those students whose applications could not be forwarded by the state government.
Praising the step of the central government, Maulana Quasmi said this was a very good step towards the upliftment of minorities and a large number of students had been benefited with this but due to the lenience of some officials of the state minority commission many students missed the opportunity.
He also appealed to Union Minister for Minority Affairs Abdur Rahman Antulay to interfere in this matter and to make some arrangement for it, seeing the economic and educational backwardness of Muslims in the state.