An extraordinary commitment by the Region "to guarantee the right to study for the many university students who are eligible but not yet beneficiaries" of the scholarships. This is what the regional councilor Roberto Deriu (Pd) underlines, who highlights the numbers of the serious situation in which the student body in Sardinia finds itself: "There are over 4,000 university students eligible for the scholarship and who are currently not beneficiaries of the contribution ".
The reason? The planned appropriations (RAS-FIS-PNRR-PON), specifies Deriu, are sufficient to provide the support "to all eligible students in the Ersu rankings of Cagliari and Sassari, but - he specifies - the Government has not yet credited all the funds committed for the Sardinia Region, and those already accredited cannot be used by the Ersu due to the constraints set by the State-Regions Conference with the resources deriving from the PNRR".
"About 16,450,000 euros are missing, necessary to pay the first installment to students currently eligible but not beneficiaries, and the second installment to all students in the rankings".
"The emblem of this situation lies in the fact that the Region would already have sufficient funds to pay at least the first installment of the scholarships to all the students who are eligible in the Ersu rankings, but cannot do so due to the aforementioned constraints - he explains the councilor dem -. This is very serious because the non-payment of the installments within the time limits foreseen by the laws entails a real barrier to access to university for freshmen, and to the continuation of studies for other students. A real denial of the right to study for thousands of students of Sardinian universities".
Finally the appeal: «I consider it necessary for the Region to make an urgent and extraordinary commitment, in order to temporarily fill the gap left by the Government, giving the possibility to the Ersu to immediately credit the first installment of the scholarships to all eligible students in the rankings, also accessing own funds if this meant saving the right to study of thousands of young people".
(Unioneonline/ss)
