LUCKNOW, May 21 -- Fifteen months after the Rani Laxmi Bai Scooty scheme was announced, the higher education department is yet to fix the eligibility criteria for the beneficiaries.

This fact came to the fore during a presentation before Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as department officials reportedly could not answer the CM's query about whether any eligibility criteria had been determined.

"The chief minster asked everyone present to first let him know the criteria fixed by UP higher education department. The minister and bureaucrats were not prepared with any answer. The department had no clear answer to Yogi's question," an insider, who was present at the meeting, said.

When contacted, higher education minister Yogendra Upadhyaya ...