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Congress attacks Modi government over education loans

  •   Mon, Jul 01 2019 01:59:27 PM

New Delhi, Jul 1 (IANS): The Congress on Monday accused the Modi government of "punishing" lakhs of economically weaker students seeking education loans to pursue professional or technical courses.

"The BJP government punishes lakhs of economically weaker students by putting obstacles in eligibility criteria to avail education loans for pursuing professional or technical courses. Education loans restricted to only 1,056 institutions, education loans routed only via Vidya Laxmi portal," Congress spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala tweeted.

He said: "The BJP government has virtually killed the education loan scheme for professional or technical courses and jeopardized future of our youth. Lack of awareness of new norms mean few apply for education loans and banks approved only 42,700 out of 1.44 lakh applications in past four years."

The report attached by Surjewala cited the latest set of guidelines issued by the Union Human Resource Development Ministry which said that the eligibility for the model educational loan scheme of the Indian Banks Association is restricted to students enrolling for professional and technical courses in accredited institutions of national importance and centrally-funded technical institutions.
  

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  • AnoNymouS, Mangalore

    Mon, Jul 01 2019

    This is a good way of dumbing down the electorate so that they keep voting to people based on oratory skills rather than economic welfare schemes. Take us back to the stone-ages. Anyway, Degrees and PG degrees are not required to sell tea and Pakora or become a sadhu or a BJP MP. You can always fake your qualification on the ballot paper like Sita mayya.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Mon, Jul 01 2019

    He's never in India ...

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  • David Pais, Mangalore

    Mon, Jul 01 2019

    education loan costs 10.5% interest rate & home loan costs 8.35% interest rate. chaiwala is killing da youth from jobless 2 interest rates. chi, chi. dey cannot obtain graduation & post graduation certificates from nagpur.

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  • Prem Kumar, Kukkialli

    Mon, Jul 01 2019

    We still didn't forget congress MP Rasheed Mansoor 70 years..still in jail.

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  • mahesh, mangalore

    Mon, Jul 01 2019

    Dont make us come out with the facts.
    during congress period, Educational loan was 14 %.
    go and check again.

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  • David Pais, Mangalore

    Mon, Jul 01 2019

    u did not complain during congress rule. during congress rule jobs were in plenty & congress did not loot indians in demonetisation

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