Amid the sensational scholarship scam involving former Principal of the DAV -PG College here the college has now asked the Social Welfare Department to provide a sum of Rs2.25 crore which the department owes to it.
The principal of the college Devendra Bhasin said that the officers of the department were consistently harping about Rs63 lakh which the college needed to pay to the social welfare department but they never say a word about the money the department needs to pay to the college. He said that the college has taken initiative and returned the sum of Rs2.25 63 lakh to the department and now it should respond the gesture. Bhasin claimed that the department owes a sum of Rs2.25 crore to the college. He said informed that department should pay Rs70 lakh to the college for the period 2013- 2015 while Rs1.70 crore are of the Uttar Pradesh when the Uttarakhand was part of it.
He said that the college has sent as many as 18 reminders for payment of Rs70 lakh in the past but the issue is still pending. Bhasin said that the college is sending all relevant documents to the District Magistrate of Dehradun.
On the scholarship scam, the principal said that the matter is under investigation by the Police and everything would become clear in it.