pune nearly one lakh students of the civic schools in the city are yet to receive funds for purchasing uniforms textbooks and other educational material through direct benefit transfer over a fortnight after their classes started for the new academic sessionthe students might have to wait for another month for the money said a source the money is likely to reach them in augustthe schools reopened on june 15 the standing committee of the pune municipal corporation pmc had set a deadline of june 30 to complete the pending direct benefit dbt registration process and start the disbursement of fundsa senior official of pmc said the training for the civic officials involved in the project will start this week thereafter the actual process to disburse the dbt funds will start the students bank accounts and their current validity will have to be checked names of some students who have changed schools have to be deleted from the list of beneficiaries the names of those taking fresh admission have to be added so it is taking time saidmeenakshi raut the education officer of pmc was not available for comment despite repetitive attempts sms sent to her remained unanswered till going to pressthe pmc started using the dbt scheme from the last year to improve the funds disbursement for purchasing educational material earlier pmc used to provide educational material directly to studentsthe civic body pays rs1200 to rs5000 to each student via dbt introduced in 201819 the funds have to be used for buying uniforms school bags notebooks and other study materialthe civic schools students are allotted dbt cards they can swipe cards at selected shops selling education material and buy what they need the shopkeepers have been empanelled to provide educational material through the dbt arrangementthe city has 287 municipal schools with over 87000 students studying in marathi english urdu and kannada schools