evidence: According to Hameed, who spoke to The Hindu, "the scholarships for minorities, OBCs, Dalits, and Adivasis used to be overlapped as the applicants may be from the same socioeconomic or religious backgrounds. We have been requesting that the Center fix the problems. They completely stopped the scholarship rather than fixing the errors." [...] As much as ₹ 15,785.36 cr worth scholarships were sanctioned under Pre-Matric, Post-Matric, Merit-cum-Means and Begum Hazrat Mahal scholarship programmes, the Minority Affairs Ministry had said on March 31, 2022. [...] An Exclusive Study conducted was by SabrangIndia focusing on the doom that has been hanging over the Scholarships for Minority Students since the Modi government came to power. Based on the analysis conducted by SabrangIndia, an overall decline in pre-matric, post-matric and MCM scholarship was shown to have declined beyond the year 2014-15. While the financial disbursement to the MCM scholarship generally had increased substantially over the period, the MCM scholarship for minority students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and of the pre-matric and the post-matric scholarships had declined and the reduction in eligible students at that level has shown a lag.