Overview

• About 3,500 Dalit students at colleges under Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh University face disruption after SC/ST scholarship funds were held up by the Social Welfare Department
• Students have staged continuous protests demanding timely disbursement of blocked scholarship payments
• Mayawati took to social media platform X to urge Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to resolve the persistent delay in fund release
• Chandra Shekhar Azad alleged that officials humiliated students based on caste and attire and demanded both a high-level probe and a judicial inquiry
• University administrators acknowledged the crisis and assured that they will secure the pending scholarships promptly