PRAYAGRAJ, Nov. 27 -- Nearly eight months into the 2025-26 academic session, which began on April 1, around 70,000 students across Uttar Pradesh are still awaiting their scholarships under the Sanskrit Scholarship Scheme. With the application process yet to begin, students from Class 6 to postgraduate levels remain uncertain about when the financial assistance will finally reach them.

Though chief minister Yogi Adityanath formally launched the scheme on October 27, 2024, at Sampurnanand Sanskrit University (SSU) in Varanasi, distributing Rs.5.86 crore to 69,195 Sanskrit students, officials acknowledge that not a single student has received the benefit so far this year.

More than 70,000 students enrolled in 403 government-aided Sanskrit ...