India, Sept. 19 -- Higher and technical education minister Chandrakant Patil on Wednesday directed officials to retain the documents submitted by students during the admission process as valid until the completion of the course. He said that as income certificates and personal details of candidates are already verified online and offline by the State Common Entrance Test Cell and the Directorate of Technical Education, the information will be treated as final for scholarship purposes.

The minister gave the instruction at a review meeting held to improve the scholarship disbursement process for students from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, Economically Weaker Sections, and other socially and educationally disad...