Bengal tablet fund diversion fraud: ‘SIT formed, state will not tolerate such scams,’ says Mamata Banerjee

The West Bengal CM besides said that those students who are yet to person wealth for a tablet arsenic portion of the state’s “Taruner Swapna” task volition “get it soon”.

While questions person been raised astir the relation of the acquisition department, administrative sources accidental Banerjee “herself is aggravated astir the matter”.

The project, nether which the Bengal authorities gives Rs 10,000 to students of classes 11 and 12 to bargain tablets, was launched by Banerjee successful 2021 aft she came to powerfulness for the 3rd time.

Initially, this wealth was fixed lone to students of people 12. This year, it was decided that people 11 students would person wealth arsenic well. School authorities were expected to nonstop the lists of students’ names and slope credentials to the acquisition department.

A constabulary probe precocious revealed that truthful far, astatine slightest 1,350 students successful 15 districts of the authorities person not received the wealth meant for the tablets, owed to immoderate radical allegedly hacking into the West Bengal Education Department’s portal to pilfer the funds.

On CM Banerjee’s instructions, Chief Secretary Manoj Pant had earlier held a gathering with DG Rajeev Kumar and different officials of the authorities police.

“This (sort of) incidental happened successful respective states including Maharashtra and Rajasthan. We managed to drawback this group. So, our medication is precise strong, rough, and tough. They person already arrested six people. They volition bash the rest,” Banerjee said.