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Delhi University: Delhi High Court Department of Science and Technology The Center was fined Rs 50,000 for not paying the third installment of an annual scholarship under the Inspire scheme. The court directed the Center to give this amount to a Delhi University student within eight weeks. The court also ordered the Center to release the third installment of Rs 60,000 to the student with six per cent annual interest. The department, which functions under the Ministry of Science and Technology, had offered the ‘Innovation in Pursuit of Science for Inspired Research’ (INSPIRE) scholarship to the student in January 2017. To be eligible, students must be in the top one percentile of their respective board in class XII.
Payment of scholarship to economically weak students
In the present case, the student belonging to economically weaker section was paid scholarship amount for the first two years but his scholarship was stopped for the third year. The Center had claimed that a student’s CGPA in core subjects should be at least 6 to remain eligible under the scheme. However, the court rejected this claim of the Centre. The Court said that there is no doubt that the requirement of 6.0 CGPA in the guidelines was in aggregate and not in core subjects. The student’s ‘transcripts’ showed that his CGPA for first and second semesters was 7.45 and for third and fourth semesters was 6.32, which was above the required limit.
6.0 CGPA required in core subjects
The court noted that the guidelines applicable to the meritorious (after scholarship) or the Inspire scheme do not mention that 6.0 CGPA in core subjects will be necessary. Therefore, the cancellation/denial of scholarship of the petitioner (student) cannot be fully supported. Justice Pratibha M. Singh said that due to the decision of the Center not to release the third installment, the student had to stop his studies after B.Sc.
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