KL Report
SRINAGAR
Crime Branch Kashmir has formally registered a case for alleged cheating of students by some agencies/NGOs on the pretext of providing them benefits under Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship scheme.
A police statement Wednesday evening said that Crime Branch J&K received complaints with allegations that students of J&K have been cheated by extorting their money on the pretext of providing them benefits under centrally sponsored Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship scheme (PMSSS). Accordingly an enquiry was ordered to investigate the in to the matter, the statement said.
“During the course of enquiry it surfaced that government of India, Ministry of Human Resources Development, had in the year 2011-12 granted five thousand scholarships to the students of J&K for pursuing studies in various institutions of the country. The scholarship was meant for the students of the State who had passed 10+2 from the J&K Board of School Education and CBSE with annual income of their parents not exceeding Rs 4.5 lakh,” the statement informed.
“It further came to fore that some NGOs/consultancies developed nexus with private educational institutions of different states and under the garb of the above scholarship lured candidates and induced them to deposit huge amounts as security deposits,” the statement said adding, “It was further found that the students to whom the admissions were deceitfully granted were not provided any scholarship by MHRD under the Prime Minister’s Scholarship scheme.”
Crime Branch Kashmir has formally registered a case in this regard and investigation has been started to bring the culprits to book, the statement added.
