Government. Scholarship not released, girl suffers in the Philippines, she says
The mother of an MBBS student, Aggipetla Rubiya Khanam, who was studying in the Philippines as part of the Videshi Vidya Deevena program, on Monday asked the Anantapur collector for permission to sell her kidney for her daughter’s fee and expense pay.
Fifteen students from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana live in a single room in the basement of a hostel after they were kicked out of the hostel for not paying the fee. The parents are unable to pay the fee as they were dependent on the state government grant awarded to them.
Magbul Jan, who comes from Hindupur, told the story The Hindu in the Collector Office on Monday that their daughter Ms. Rubiya Khanam was transferred to the Davao Medical School Foundation INC. at Davavo University in the Philippines and applied for the state government scholarship. She also got the e-passport, but the amount was not released for the past year despite the sanction.
“The total cost of MBBS training at the university should be £ 30 throughout the study period. Of this we were promised a £ 10 stipend before the pandemic broke out and the government of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy had £ 15 lakh later. However, about 560 such students were still waiting for the money to be released, ”she said.
About 160 students from Andhra Pradesh applied to the minority welfare department and the others applied to the economically backward classes and BC quota, she said.
Affected by a pandemic
They were in the textile and saree business in Hindupur and were confident of raising £ 20 over five years. “The pandemic and lockdown, however, broke our backs as business slumped from £ 11,000 a day to £ 1,500,” Ms Magbul told Jan.
“We wanted to raise money by mortgaging our house, but we couldn’t because it is an old house and no municipal permits were built for it before I got married,” she added.
Ms. Magbul came to the Collectorate to ask the Collector for the grant amount or permission to sell her kidney in order to raise the money. “I am in a desperate situation as I cannot see my daughter suffer in inhumane conditions. She lives with 14 others in a single room and has only one bathroom to share,” she complained.
“The front desk in Spandana doesn’t give out a receipt because it’s COVID time and the district collector is busy addressing a large gathering of volunteers and I can’t meet them,” she complained. “I’m not sure if my complaint will be taken up or if it will reach the district collector. I had met him once in the past but no action had been taken so far, ”she said.
Many suffer
Another person, Prasada Reddy, had sent his son to the UK to study engineering and is now taking out loans to mortgage his wife’s gold to fund his son’s studies as he has not yet received the scholarship amount. His wife rode a scooter from Hindupur to the Chief Minister’s office last year but was not allowed to meet him.
In the meantime, around 170 people (parents) with similar problems have come together and plan to meet the Prime Minister after the Ugadi celebrations.