A well organised racket of siphoning of Government funds by showing imparting education through madrasas has surfaced in Moradabad district in Uttar Pradesh. Interestingly, the district minority welfare officer, who was deemed to be monitoring the proper utilisation of funds claimed to have no information about the madrasas whom he sanctioned huge Government grant on regular basis. He also refused to give details claiming that the minority institutions did not come under the ambit of Right to Information (RTI).
The above sensational fact came up during initial probe by Information Commissioner, Hafiz Usman, who now claimed to have ordered the district magistrate of Moradabad, to complete a probe within a month and send a report so that appropriate action could be initiated against the guilty.
Usman also imposed a cash fine of `25,000 on the minority welfare officer of Moradabad, for concealing the information about
disbursement of Government funds.
Disclosing the gross irregularities committed by the minority welfare department in Moradabad, Usman said here on Monday afternoon that a social activist knocked at his court apprising him that how the Government money has been siphoned off in the name of imparting education in madrasas, many of which just exist on papers in Moradabad.