The Union Ministry of Minority Affairs on Thursday introduced that funds pending for seven months underneath Maulana Azad Nationwide Fellowship (MANF) “have been launched”. The fellowship for analysis students from minority communities was not disbursed since January this yr.
In December 2022, the scholarship was discontinued by the ministry however present students had been to be granted the fellowship until their time period concluded.
MANF is a five-year fellowship offered by the Centre within the type of monetary help to 6 notified minority communities – Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Jains, Parsis and Sikhs — to pursue M Phil and PhD.
Saying the discharge of the pending dues, Union Minister for Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju posted on X: “A small step which means loads to so many. Below PM Narendra Modi’s management, we stay dedicated to ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, Sabka Prayas’. Bhagidari se Bhagyoday just isn’t a slogan, it’s a mission.”
Final week, Rijiju in an interview to The Indian Categorical had mentioned complaints from students of delay in disbursement of funds are being reviewed.
Students who had been awaiting the funds for months welcomed the federal government’s determination. “It’s good that funds have been launched. The federal government ought to be certain that there aren’t any additional delays and the funds are launched each month,” Aazam Ali, a analysis scholar, advised The Indian Categorical.
Razia Khatoon, one other recipient of MANF, mentioned: “We actually hope we don’t need to run anymore campaigns and there aren’t any additional delays. We should always get our scholarship each month.”
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Khatoon additionally sought to know if “the revised Home Hire Allowance, already granted to UGC JRF-SRF students, be granted to MANF students”. It’s been a collective demand of the MANF students for a while.
Congress MP from Bihar Mohammad Jawed had not too long ago written to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman “drawing her consideration” to the delay in disbursement of funds.
There are round 800 MANF students throughout India.
