Tahir Mushtaq
JAMMU, Sept 10: Social
Welfare Department of the state government is meant to provide pension and
scholarships for the deserving candidates including widows, old age, students
and people belongs to the Below Poverty Line category of the state but now a
day the department facilitates more to their blue eyed people.
According to the
sources a case of district Udhampur came into limelight that where documents
speaks itself that a candidate is not eligible for grant of these scholarship
but getting scholarship from this department from the last many month.
Sources further said
that this is not a single case but thousands of candidates of such type are
getting benefits of these schemes which are really made for poor who are
deprived of these facilities because of nexus between politicians and other
concerned.
One similar fraudulent
case was detected by Crime Branch in Udhampur
where one Nishu Atri
daughter of Prem Nath resident Raathian Udhampur is getting scholarship on fake
documents but concerned agencies are not doing
anything to save state
exchequer.
An RTI activists
Rameshwar Sharma obtained information under RTI from the department and came to
know that Prem Nath is getting scholarship for her daughter in violation of
rules, regulations and norms.
Sharma said Nishu Atri
is perusing the degree in BAMS from the Jammu Institute of Ayurveda and
Research Bantalab and for that purpose she is getting scholarship from the
social welfare department.
As per the documents
submitted in the social welfare department by Nishu her father is working as a
guard and his annual income is less than Rs 60,000.
Whereas the fact is
her father is a LIC agent and his annual income is Rs 3.6 lacs.
Sharma added that this
is not a single case but thousands of candidates of such type are getting
benefits of these schemes which are really made for poor who are deprived of
these facilities because of nexus between politicians and other
concerned.
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