Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh wrote to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking release of the States pending amount and revised sharing pattern under the Post-Matric Scholarship for Scheduled Castes (PMS-SCs) for the period 2017-2020.

Though the Government of India had, on December 31, 2020, amended the guidelines for the Scholarship to introduce a revised sharing pattern between the Centre and the States (60:40), the same had been made effective only from April 1, 2020.

Therefore, non-release of scholarship funds under the PMS-SCs would adversely affect the Education of SC students, who are unable to pay the fee from their own pocket.