Chandigarh, January 4:
The Punjab State Commission for Scheduled Castes today wrote a letter to the Punjab Government and asked to take legal and administrative action against those educational institutions in the state that were not awarding degrees to SC students studying under the scholarship scheme.
Disclosing this here today, Chairperson, Punjab State Scheduled Castes Commission Mrs. Tejinder Kaur, said that it has come to her notice through newspapers and received complaints that many educational institutions haven’t awarding degrees and other original documents to SC students studying under scholarship scheme. She said that this matter has been taken up with the commission and a letter has been written to the government asked to cancel the affiliation of erring educational institutions and criminal cases to be registered under Atrocities Act 1989 against management of these institutions.
