Shrikant Prasad, a final-year DU LLB student, requested that the Jai Bhim Mukhyamantari Pratibha Vikas Yojana, which was launched in September 2019 and provides funding to students from Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, and other categories for attending coaching sessions, be implemented.
After a law student requested help under a scheme that facilitates coaching courses and claimed it was now halted due to Covid, the Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi Government to consider the case and issue relevant orders.
Shrikant Prasad, a final-year LLB student at Delhi University, requested that the Jai Bhim Mukhyamantari Pratibha Vikas Yojana, which was announced in September 2019 and provides funds to students from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and other categories for attending coaching classes for certain competitive exams in India, be implemented.
“The GNCTD (Delhi Government) is required to investigate the case and issue necessary instructions to the Academy (coaching centre) in accordance with the Scheme,” Justice Prateek Jalan ruled. Mr Prasad was also given permission to address the court again if the necessity arose.
Mr Prasad claimed that he wanted to take the judicial services test in the state of Rajasthan and that he had enrolled with a coaching centre that had been approved under the programme. During the Covid epidemic, he was upset that he wasn’t allowed to attend courses held by the coaching centre.
“The petitioner (Prasad) enrolled in the above-mentioned scheme classes and supplied the required paperwork, however, the lessons have been halted due to COVID-19. The petition claims that “no online programmes are being launched to provide the advantages under the scheme.”
He told the court that courses were being held for the coaching centre’s fee-paying pupils. Mr Prasad said in his appeal that the coaching centre claimed that the government had yet to begin “the online form of lessons for the scheme pupils.”
Mr Prasad then petitioned the high court, requesting that the Delhi government ensure that he receives lessons under the initiative.
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