September 29, 2016 | UPDATED 16:40 IST
Challenging the constitutional validity of the need for Aadhaar card and applying online for the scholarships, the plea alleged it was a violation of Supreme Courts judgement which had said that Aadhar would not be mandatory for availing the benefits of governments welfare schemes.
The plea said that Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Zoroastrians (Parsis) have been notified as minority communities under Section 2(c) of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992.
It claimed that the policy of "compelling" students to apply through the online process "smacks of non-application of mind since the students most in need of scholarship might not have access to computer, internet or the requisite knowledge of online application".
The petition referred to the July 14 communication of the Ministry of Minority Affairs (MoMA) which had asked the chief secretary or administrators of states to advertise for various national scholarships of the ministry.
It has also sought setting aside of this communication, besides a direction to the government to allow students to apply for national scholarships through offline means. PTI ABA HMP PPS ARC
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