Legal action against the colleges for charging full fees from Maratha students

Legal action against the colleges for charging full fees from Maratha students

The government of Maharashtra has issued a circular in which it has directed the college not to charge the full fees from the students of Maratha community under the Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj scholarship. The move from the government is also a bid to calm down the protesters as they are demanding reservation in the government jobs under the OBC quota. The protests from the community turned violent when a member of their community jumped into the Godavari river. “The government will reimburse 50 percent fees of those students whose parents’ annual income is less than Rs 8 lakh under the scholarship scheme,” Tawde said. He also said that colleges charging the full fees will face legal action in case they fail to meet the directives of the government. Tawde also urged the students to lodge a complaint with Joint Director, Education, and nodal officers appointed for the purpose. Tawde also said that the present government has done more for the Maratha community than Congress and NCP governments in the past. A handful of Maratha families in the Congress and NCP have been controlling the power from the past 45 years and the anger of the Maratha community is against these families.

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