Chandigarh, May 30, 2014: The Punjab Government, in a bid to further streamline the disbursement of scholarships to the students belonging to Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes and Minority Communities, has issued an advisory for all these beneficiaries to link their Unique Identification (UID) Number with their saving bank accounts.
Disclosing this here today, an official spokesperson of the Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes Welfare Department, Punjab said that the state government has been directly crediting the scholarship amount to the accounts of beneficiaries through ‘Online Banking Management System’. He said that for this purpose, it has been made mandatory for the beneficiary to register his/her UID number into the saving bank account so that the process of scholarships amount disbursement could be made in transparent and at high pace.
Date:
Friday, May 30, 2014