Rwitwika Bhattacharya

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When scores of parents flooded his office with complaints over delayed scholarship payments to tribal boys and girls, a young parliamentarian from Odisha was forced to take matters into his own hands. When the government had turned a deaf ear to his repeated requests for prompt release of scholarship funds, the MP was forced to pay tuition out of his own pocket—a matter he eventually took up in Parliament, and one that MPs struggle with regularly.