Schooling Minister Bratya Basu stated the accused will probably be arrested. File photograph
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Extra allegations of fraud regarding the West Bengal authorities’s ‘pill scheme’ got here to the fore on Thursday with a number of faculties in Kolkata, South 24 Parganas and different districts alleging that cash allotted for the scholars have been diverted to different accounts.
With a whole lot of scholars alleging fraud, the Kolkata Police on Thursday arrange a Particular Investigation Group (SIT) to look into the allegations of siphoning of funds meant for the ‘ pill scheme’. Comparable allegations of fraud have been made by authorities of no less than 35 faculties within the adjoining South 24 Parganas districts the place funds meant by 400 college students have been diverted to completely different accounts.
The Malda district police registered 5 extra FIRs in allegations of pill fraud and the district police additionally constituted an SIT to look into allegations of fraud. 181 financial institution accounts have been frozen on Thursday by Malda police.
Earlier related allegations of diversion of funds meant to be transferred to accounts of scholars have come to fore in Murshidabad, Paschim Bardhaman and Uttar Dinajpur districts of the State. Greater than a dozen folks have been arrested and a whole lot of accounts have been seized.
Senior officers of the West Bengal authorities held a gathering to look into how the fraud might be executed in a direct profit scheme. The investigation up to now has revealed that there have been cases of concentrating on the ‘Taruner Swapno’ portal with the involvement of cyber cafes throughout the rip-off. In a number of instances the funds have been transferred to financial institution accounts exterior the State.
The State authorities’s Taruner Swapno Scheme is aimed to bridge the digital divide amongst college students of West Bengal by offering monetary help to college students to purchase smartphones and tablets. Beneath this scheme a one time grant of Rs 10,000 is transferred into the checking account of scholars at greater secondary lessons. Within the monetary yr 2024-25 the West Bengal authorities has allotted about Rs 900 crore for the scheme.
Because the Opposition events are concentrating on the State authorities for the fraud, West Bengal Schooling Minister Bratya Basu expressed hope that each one these behind the fraud will probably be arrested. The Minister stated that the fraud is a one time glitch just like the leaks in query papers of the State Board exams.
In the meantime, Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari stated that there’s not a scheme in West Bengal the place fraud has been executed by the supporters of the ruling occasion. The ‘ pill fraud’ has emerged when the West Bengal authorities is going through allegations of irregularities within the faculty and municipal recruitments in addition to siphoning of funds for the general public distribution system (PDS) . Former Schooling Minister Partha Chatterjee and former Meals and Provides Minister Jyotipriya Mullick are behind the bars for alleged involvement in class recruitment and PDS fraud.
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Revealed – November 15, 2024 09:28 am IST
