{"id":6933,"date":"2016-11-02T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T04:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=6933"},"modified":"2016-11-02T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T04:30:36","slug":"students-protest-closure-scooty-finance-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=6933","title":{"rendered":"Students protest \u2018closure\u2019 of Scooty Finance Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> Various college female students Tuesday staged protest on MA Road here, demanding benefits of the Scooty Finance scheme.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The students alleged that authorities have closed the scheme after benefiting \u201cinfluential students.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCollege authorities are refusing to entertain our applications. We were asked to visit Deputy Commissioner\u2019s office to avail the benefits of scheme,\u201d they said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The protestors blocked the road for 15 minutes but later dispersed off peacefully.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On September 9, this year, Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti formally launched the Scooty Finance scheme for college going girls. The \u00a0 was announced by the State Government in Budget 2016-17.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The scheme envisages that the State Government will facilitate purchase of scooties by the college going girls by bearing 50 percent cost of the two-wheeler.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Various college female students Tuesday staged protest on MA Road here, demanding benefits of the Scooty Finance scheme. The students alleged that authorities have closed the scheme after benefiting \u201cinfluential students.\u201d \u201cCollege authorities are refusing to entertain our applications. We were asked to visit Deputy Commissioner\u2019s office to avail the benefits of scheme,\u201d they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}