IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision : 25.08.2025 BABA KUMA SINGH JI INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY .....Petitioner VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KULDEEP TIWARI Present : Mr. A.P.S.Sandhu, Advocate, for the petitioner.

Mr. Sahil R. Bakshi, AAG, Punjab.

Ms. Gurmeet Kaur Gill, Sr. Panel Counsel, for respondents no.3 and 4-UOI KULDEEP TIWARI , J.(Oral)

1. Through the instant writ petition filed under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India, a prayer is made for issuance of a mandamus upon respondents to release dues of Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Post Matric Scholarship Scheme for the Scheduled Caste (SC) students, to the petitioner-society for the academic years 2017-2018 and 2019-2020.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner, inter alia submits that with an object to impart Post Matric education to the SC students, and as per the scheme promulgated by the Central Government, the petitioner-

society has duly admitted the students belonging to SC Category.

3. He further submits that demand notices (Annexures P-5 to P- 7), pertaining to the payment of arrears as mentioned above, were duly served upon the respondents. However, till date, the same have neither been considered, nor decided.

4. It transpires from a perusal of the instant petition that the petitioner-society is running number of schools, and the claim pertains to different schools.

5. An identical issue has already been adjudicated upon by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Hon’ble Court in a bunch of petitions, vide order dated 09.01.2025, as passed in CWP-13761-2024. The relevant part thereof is extracted hereinafter:-

“20. As the dispute is between the State of Punjab and Government of India and the Institution(s)/University concerned, which are yet to receive the grant under the Post Matric Scholarship Scheme, Punjab for Schedules Castes Students a direction is issued to the Chief Secretary of the State of Punjab and to the Secretary, Department of Social Justice and Empowerment of Government of India to hold a joint meeting to resolve the dispute with regard to the payment of the amount under the Post Matric Scholarship Scheme, Punjab for Schedules Castes Students within a period of one month from the date of receipt of copy of this order. Within a further period of 08 weeks of the first meeting, the issue with regard to the payment is to be resolved pending consideration between the State of Punjab and Union of India failing which, the same will be treated as a violation of order of this Court.

21. After resolving the issue, whatever liability of the State of Punjab as well as of the Union of India, the same will be ascertained and the liability of Union of India will be paid to the State Government and the respondent-State will further discharge its liability after receiving the due amount if any admissible to the Institution(s)/University concerned who have already raised their claim qua the expenditure incurred for imparting studies to the students under the Post Matric Scholarship Scheme, Punjab for Schedules Castes. It will be the duty of the respective Departments of the Government of India and the State of Punjab to clear the entitlement of the respective Institutions/University upto 30.06.2025 under all circumstances qua entitlement under Post Matric Scholarship Scheme, Punjab for Schedules Castes.

22. In case any of the Institution(s) has not raised any claim before the Union of India or the State of Punjab, they will be at liberty to give their details of entitlement by filing an appropriate representation along with the necessary documents with the respective departments of the Government of Punjab as well as before the appropriate Department of Government of India within a period of three weeks from today.

23. In case, any Institution(s), who has raised the claim for reimbursement of the amount incurred under the Post Matric Scholarship Scheme, Punjab for Schedules Castes and have not been reimb