Posted by: Mr. Hyde June 10, 2008
Brahmin switches caste to bag Dalit scholarship
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This is an utterly great shame.
First of all, Mr. Shankar Gautam's scholarship should be revoked. He and Mr. Lal Bahadur KC should be tried in the court of Law and sent to where they belong i.e. the jail.

The governing body which oversees the scholarship award should send formal apology to the Indian Embassy and Indian  medical college indicating that it was a grave mistake and such conduct shall not take place in future so as not to lose this generosity for the future applicants.

Dalits have been down-trodden by the elite ruling class for thousands of years . They, in general, have relatively lower chance of upward mobility in the society.
If the applicant dalits are the ones
"having property in Kathmandu or some metropolitan area",
then they should NOT be entitled to this scholarship or any other similar scholarships.
But who, in the right mind, would go and live in Singana VDC-4 in Baglung if they had a big house in a major city?


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