Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, May 13: Crime Branch Kashmir today registered a case for alleged cheating of students by some agencies and NGOs on the pretext of providing them benefits under Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS).
Crime Branch had received complaints with allegations that students of the State 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 into the matter.
“During the course of enquiry it surfaced that Government of India, Ministry of Human Resources Development, had in the year 2011-12 granted 5,000 scholarships to the students of the State 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”, a Crime Branch statement said here.
The Crime Branch during the investigations found that some NGOs, consultancies developed nexus with private educational institutions of different States and under the garb of the scholarship lured candidates and induced them to deposit huge amounts as security deposits. 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.
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