SRINAGAR: Scores of students, admitted in Rawal Institute of Faridabad and Hindustan Institute of Technology and Management under Prime Ministers Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) staged protests against All India Centre for Urban and Rural Development (AICURD), Peoples Forum and Peace Foundation alleging that these NGOs cheated them by counselling them in a wrong manner for their petty benefits.
These NGOs after counselling provided us wrong information that our scholarships have been cleared. Now after studying for a year, the college authorities are demanding hefty fees from us. Where from we poor students could afford such hefty amount, they said.
They said that these NGOs and some social activists claiming to be facilitators of PMSSS, charged Rs 25,000 to Rs 2.5 lakh from every aspiring student wishing to get funding from PMSSS. They even registered students online on their own in those colleges where they get a hefty commission from Rs 50,000 to 1 lakh. This way they duped students in last few years and earned huge sum of money.
The agitated students said that these NGOs flouted all the guidelines, which effectively make students ineligible for the scheme.
Meanwhile, another lot of students studying at Indo-Global College and Cambridge College in Chandigarh under PMSSS arrived at Press Enclave and staged protest against the NGO Peace Foundation. They alleged that the members of Peace Foundation took Rs 46,000 each from every student on the pretext that they would be admitted in Chandigarh College. However, after getting admission, now the College authorities ask us to pay all the dues to continue our education, one of the protestors said. (CNS)
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