PAC flags scholarship delays of up to 89 months for SC students, warns of action against six states

New Delhi, Oct 15 (UNI) The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has flagged prolonged delays in disbursing pre-matric and post-matric scholarships to Scheduled Caste (SC) students, with beneficiaries waiting for as long as 48 months for pre-matric dues and 89 months for post-matric payments, Congress general secretary K C Venugopal, who also chairs the committee, said on Thursday. In a statement, Venugopal said the audit had also uncovered instances in which income and caste eligibility criteria remained unverified, while payments were made to non-SC beneficiaries, even as eligible students continued to wait for their scholarships. The committee examined the implementation…