BJP leader and former president of the State Yuva Kalyan Parishad Ravindra Jugran demanded a CBI inquiry into the alleged Rs 3500 crore scam involving the scholarship for the students’ belonging to OBC, SC, ST, Divyang and economically weaker section of the society. He said while addressing the media persons on Sunday that the funds released for providing scholarships by the social welfare department were embezzled between 2010 and 2016. “I would soon meet the Chief Minister soon and submit the documents related to the scam,” he said.
Jugran further said that a scam to the tune of Rs 1500 crore had occurred in the district social welfare departments in Dehradun, Udham Singh Nagar, Haridwar and some others in 2014-15 and 2015-16 in cahoots with some corrupt officials of the private educational institutions, banks and state administration.
He also spoke of the allegation of the forged students being enrolled in some private educational institutes based in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. “The scam was held in an organised way. Such scams were held during the Congress rule,” he added.