Ranchi | Updated: September 1, 2023 11:41 IST Beijing-Thimpu speed up border talks: New Delhi's Despite govt's efforts, why onion prices remain high The Indian Express investigated the Pre-Matric Scholarship Scheme, which is meant to help minority relationship with the two The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday registered a First Information Report (FIR) into a minority scholarship ‘scam’, in which 830 “fake” institutions Minority Affairs between 2017-18 and 2021-22 financial years.
The FIR is against “unknown nodal officers, officials or public servants of public public sector banks, private persons”. The FIR mentions that its genesis lies in the “reports published in the The Indian Express”, based on which the Minority Affairs ministry first ordered a Preliminary Enquiry by the CBI, and later engaged the National Council of Applied Economic Team India looks unstoppable at the World Cup after thrashing inform South Africa How Apple’s new Journal app is helping me in my interview: We're at the beginning of the golden age of audio OnePlus Pad Go review The NCAER carried out third-party evaluation of the scholarship schemes in 1,572 institutes, and found that 830 of them were ‘fake or partially fake’.
It also pegged Skincare alert: Habits you need to ghost ASAP! CBI’s PK Srivastava is the Investigating Officer of the case. What is the scholarship scheme? The Ministry of Minority Affairs runs three scholarship schemes: pre-matric scholarships, post matric scholarships, and merit-cum-means for the students of six minority communities, including Muslims, Christian, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists and In the last 5 years ending 2021-22, on an average, 65 lakh students received scholarships every year.
The funds are made available to students directly in DBT What is the scholarship scam as reported by The Indian Express? The Indian Express investigated the Pre-Matric Scholarship Scheme, which is meant The Indian Express also cross-checked data on the National Scholarship Portal (NSP) with beneficiary bank accounts recorded in the Public Finance Management System (PFMS) to find how a direct benefit transfer scheme, meant to cut corruption, was being derailed by it.
The investigation revealed multiple instances of fraud and corruption across Jharkhand, Bihar and other states in the distribution of the scholarship amount. How did the government react? Multiple FIRs were registered in Jharkhand, Bihar, Assam, and other places. It was after these reports that the Minority Affairs ministry referred the matter to the CBI for a Preliminary Enquiry, the report of which is yet to be submitted.
At a later stage, the NCAER was asked to carry out its investigation, which arrived at Elvish Yadav case: How is snake venom used as a 8 Indian Navy sentenced to death in Qatar: 3 options efforts, why onion prices remain high Some schools in Madhya Pradesh reported that they were not recognised after Class 7, but a large number of registrations were for students of Class 8 and beyond.