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Tribal school hostels run into trouble over delay in PMS fund
The New Indian Express Jeypore
|June 23, 2025
The frequent delays in disbursal of monthly Pre-Matric Scholarship (PMS) seems to have become a new normal, leading to difficulties in smooth management of hostels in the tribal-dominated Sundargarh district.
Since the new academic year begins from April 1, the monthly PMS fund for meeting hostel expenditure of ST and SC students from classes 1 to 10 should be placed in advance. However, in absence of the timely allocation, the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Development (SSD) department which runs the hostels is affected.
This year, the hostels for the new academic session started running from April 1 and continued till May 5 as per the government order. After summer vacation, the hostels resumed June 20, but the PMS fund has not yet been placed.
This story is from the June 23, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Jeypore.
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