SRINAGAR:
Jammu and Kashmir police Crime Branch (CB) has registered a case against some agencies and NGOs for cheating students of the Kashmir valley after promising them benefit under the Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship scheme.
A police spokesman said CB received complaints that students of Jammu and Kashmir have been cheated by extorting money on the pretext of providing them benefits under centrally sponsored PMSSS. Accordingly, an inquiry was ordered to investigate the matter, he said.
During the inquiry, it surfaced that Union Human Resource Development Ministry, had in the year 2011-12 granted 5,000 scholarships to the J&K students for pursuing studies in various institutions of the country.
The scholarship was meant for students 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. It further came to fore that some NGOs and 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.
It was further found that the students to whom the admissions were deceitfully granted were not provided any scholarship by the HRD Ministry under the PMSS. The Crime Branch has formally registered a case and investigation has been started. (AGENCIES)
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