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Public Accounts Committee questions Centre and six states on SC scholarships

Parliament's spending watchdog was due to take evidence on pre-matric and post-matric scholarships for Scheduled Caste students, based on a CAG audit, as several new committees began their year's work.

From the editorial desk · New DelhiPublished
The Parliament Library Building, New Delhi
The Parliament Library Building, New DelhiRaj Rewal Associates / Wikimedia

Key points

  1. The PAC was scheduled to examine scholarship schemes for Scheduled Caste students on Thursday.
  2. Officials from the social justice ministry and six state governments were called to give evidence.
  3. The education committee was set to hear the secretaries of school and higher education the same day.

Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee was due on Thursday to question officials over two central education schemes for Dalit students, the pre-matric and post-matric scholarships for Scheduled Caste students.

The committee, which examines how the government spends money voted by Parliament, was scheduled to begin with a briefing from the audit side before taking oral evidence. Its subject is paragraph 2.13 of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s Report No. 36 of 2025, which deals with the two scholarship schemes.

Representatives of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment were called, along with officials from the governments of Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab, Odisha, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.

The PAC is one of several committees starting their year. On the same day, the Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports was set to choose the subjects it will examine during its term and to hear the secretaries of the Department of School Education and Literacy, the Department of Higher Education and the Ministry of Women and Child Development on the working of their schemes. The Finance committee was scheduled to take evidence on the Indian Statistical Institute Bill.

The education panel meets again on Friday to hear the secretaries of the Department of Sports and the Department of Youth Affairs. The committee on personnel, law and justice is also due to hear secretaries of both ministries on Friday, and the commerce committee holds its introductory meeting.

Committee meetings are held behind closed doors. Their findings become public only when reports are tabled in Parliament.