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The move comes on the heels of the ministry discontinuing the Maulana Azad National Fellowship.

https://thewire.in/government/padho-pardesh-scheme-discontinued 

Students belonging to minority communities can no longer avail of interest subsidies on education loans to study abroad. The Ministry of Minority Affairs (MOMA) has discontinued the Padho Pardesh scheme which enables this, reported The Hindu BusinessLine.

Last month, the Indian Banks’ Association notified banks about the discontinuation of the scheme from 2022-23. However, no reason has been specified for the change, as per the news report.

Under the Padho Pardesh Interest Subsidy Scheme, students who belong to minority communities – including Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, and Parsis – and want to pursue higher studies such as a master’s degree, MPhil and PhD abroad, are eligible to obtain interest subsidies on their entire loan amounts for a specified time period (course period, plus one year or six months after getting job, whichever is earlier).

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Anti-Conversion Laws: The trope of forced religious conversions  https://sabrangindia.in/article/anti-conversion-laws-trope-forced-religious-conversions Tanya Arora 20 Dec 2022  Even with central “anti-conversion law”, figures show up the claim for “forced religious conversions” for what it is, an exaggeration

It is an established principled of just and fair jurisprudence that once any law is passed, that contains anti-constitutional and oppressive provisions, selective policing, state surveillance, harassment or interference in issues of personal liberty, privacy and autonomy, follow. These take a collective form when the very intent of such laws is not community neutral but majoritarian.

Modi Government is One of the Most Appalling in the World—Bharat Ratna & Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen https://youtu.be/hOhLhaTrSxo?t=110 Jan 14, 2023

In one of the harshest possible criticisms of the Narendra Modi government, the well-known Nobel Laureate upon whom the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government conferred the Bharat Ratna in 1999, Amartya Sen, has said: “the Modi government is one of the most appalling in the world”. Prof. Sen explained that he has come to this view because “it treats its own people in such a nasty way”. He added: “the Indian government’s record has been really rather terrible”. At another point in the interview he said the Modi government’s treatment of muslims and the fact that it has no muslim MP in either house of parliament is “unacceptably barbaric”.