Monitoring mechanisms, necessary for the Scholarship schemes, are inbuilt in the individual schemes and additionally, while financial monitoring gets done through Utilization Certificates required before release of subsequent installment of funds for such schemes, academic advancement of beneficiaries gets monitored through the renewal criteria of the scholarship for the subsequent academic years. There is a plethora of such schemes spread over various Ministries and Institutions and the monitoring is done by the concerned Ministry of the State Government or the Institution, as the case may be. Ministry of Human Resource Development is not aware of instances where relevant provisions have not been followed by the implementing Authorities. Book Bank Schemes are mostly run by individual Institutions under their own rules.
This information was given by Smt. D. Purandeswari, the Minister of State for Human Resource Development in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.
Scholarship and Book Bank Scheme
