Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren orders probe into Scholarship Scam

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Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren ordered probe into alleged scam which revealed cases of fraud in Central Scholarship Program.

Indian Express found several cases of fraud in Central scholarship for minority students. It is alleged that state government employees illegally diverted funds of a Central Scholarship Program.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren said, “We have just got to know about the scam and very soon, there will be action.”

Hemant Soren referred the investigation, which reported on a letter sent in July 2019 by the Centre to the then Jharkhand Chief Secretary warning of “repeated attempts to subvert” the National Scholarship Portal. “The Chief Secretary has taken cognizance of the matter. It seems the matter was flagged last year and we will get to the bottom of it,”

The investigation also pointed to a failure in several layers of verification of applicants from the school to the state level.

Chief Minister Hemant Soren, “We will immediately rectify the system of verification and make sure this does not happen again. These scholarships are important for the students,”

Indian Express found Records which show that in 2019-20, Rs 61 crore was disbursed through Direct Benefit Transfer in Jharkhand under the pre-Matric scholarship scheme, which was launched by the UPA government in 2008. Soren came to power in December 2019 as the head of a JMM-Congress-RJD government in the state.

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