The CBI has discovered serious anomalies in 13 out of 22 educational institutions that are under investigation in connection with the Rs 250 crore scholarship scam.
According to agency sources, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has discovered serious anomalies in 13 out of 22 educational institutions that are under investigation in connection with the Rs 250 crore scholarship scam.CBI officials said that investigations showed that these 13 universities accepted scholarships in the names of roughly 2,000 fake students. They are yet to examine the remaining institutions' accounts and other paperwork.
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| The CBI has discovered serious anomalies in 13 out of 22 educational institutions that are under investigation in connection with the Rs 250 crore scholarship scam. |
The CBI investigated the documents, accounts, and data it obtained from computers and other related material of these institutions in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh and found that scholarship funds had been siphoned off and awards had been given to students who either didn't exist or had left the institutions.
These organisations received a sizable portion of scholarship funds.
HOW THE SCHOLARSHIP SCAM TOOK OFF
The scam went underway when the scholarships for pre-matriculating and post-matriculating students from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes under 36 programmes were not given to eligible beneficiaries in 2012–2013.
Since the person who built the online interface for scholarship disbursement was also in charge of sending the money, the scam went unnoticed for over five years.
After claims were made that government school pupils in the tribal Spiti valley in the Lahaul and Spiti region had not received any scholarships for the previous five years, the issue finally came to light in 2018.
Inquiries had revealed that certain institutions had misled the education department by using fake letterheads to demonstrate bogus affiliations. The department also failed to carry out physical checks of the infrastructure and student numbers.
The additional irregularities included the institutions' failure to submit student Aadhaar numbers, the withdrawal of scholarships using the same Aadhaar account from many students who did not exist, and the establishment of fictitious accounts in nationalised banks.
The institutions allegedly used blank checks and vouchers submitted at the time of admission in order to withdraw the scholarship funds, working in collusion with some staff of nationalised banks who created the accounts without verifying Aadhar.
According to reports, the administration registered their own numbers as students' phone numbers in order to receive SMS notifications of transactions and make cash withdrawals. Read More
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