PM Prefix Angst Stalls School Cash: Centre Withholds Rs 1,800 Crore Grants to Bengal
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 03 December 2024 | The Telegraph
The Centre has withheld grants of over ₹1,800 crore to Bengal under a key school education scheme after the state disagreed to implement another central programme that wanted select schools to prefix “Prime Minister” to their names. For over two years, Bengal has not been getting funds under the rural employment and housing schemes.
Under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), the key scheme for implementing the Right to Education Act, the education ministry has withheld grants to Bengal, particularly after the state did not agree to implement the centrally sponsored Pradhan Mantri Schools for Rising India (PM-Shri)…