A major fraud has been exposed in the mid-day meal scheme. Seven employees, including the district coordinator of MDM posted in the BSA office, disguised themselves as cooks and ate Rs 7.42 lakh as honorarium in their own and relatives’ accounts. After the revelations in the investigation, DM Sujit Kumar terminated the contract of the seven employees and lodged an FIR against five. Apart from this, a recommendation was made to the Director General School Education for departmental action against six block education officers who were negligent in supervision. There is a disturbance in the Basic Education Department due to such a big action outright.
Recently, when the budget was allocated from the government to provide honorarium to the cooks, the BSA sought reports from all the Block Education Officers. Block Education Officer Sirathu Surendra Patel sought information from the principals of the schools by putting the list of cooks on the WhatsApp group for attendance verification. During this, information was received from some schools that the cooks listed in the list are not appointed at all.
BSA investigation revealed
ABSA informed about this to BSA Prakash Singh. When the matter came to the notice of the District Magistrate, he formed a two-member team of BSA as well as Finance and Accounts Officer Vinay Prajapati and directed to investigate the matter. When the officers scrutinized the records, a shocking revelation came to light. BSA said that between the year 2019 and 22, five employees, including District Coordinator MDM Pankaj Jaiswal, posted in the office in the name of 45 fake cooks, were sending honorarium to their and their relatives’ accounts.
So far these people have embezzled an amount of Rs 7.42 lakh. Two other employees also cooperated in this office. Apart from this, the concerned Block Education Officers also showed negligence in supervision. Based on the investigation report, the DM on Wednesday terminated the contracts of all the seven employees and directed to file an FIR against the five employees whose accounts were being diverted. Inspector Vinod Singh told that late night FIR has been registered against all the five employees.
their contract expired
Pankaj Kumar Jaiswal – District Coordinator MDM
Vinay Kumar Gupta, the then Computer Operator/MDM Table Incharge Sirathu (current posting Computer Operator Saraswan Block)
Rajkumar Chaurasia, the then Computer Operator/MDM Table Incharge Muratganj (Actual posting Computer Operator Kada Block)
Letter sent to the government for departmental action against them
Rajesh Kumar, the then ABS Sirathu (current posting ABSA district Chitrakoot)
Jawahar Lal Yadav, the then ABSA Sirathu (present posting ABSA HQ Kaushambi)
Chandramohan Singh, ABSA Manjhanpur
Kiran Pandey, then ABSA Muratganj (currently posted ABSA Kada)
Mukesh Narayan Mishra, the then ABSA Muratganj (currently suspended ABSA affiliated DIET Manjhanpur)
Mithilesh Kumar, the then ABSA Sarswan (current posting ABSA district Chitrakoot)
Along with the termination of the contract of seven employees, an FIR has been lodged against five including the MDM coordinator on charges of withdrawing honorarium in the name of fake cooks. Along with this, a recommendation has been made to the Director General for departmental action against the six block education officers who were negligent in supervision. – Sujit Kumar, District Magistrate Kaushambi
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A major fraud has been exposed in the mid-day meal scheme. Seven employees, including the district coordinator of MDM posted in the BSA office, disguised themselves as cooks and ate Rs 7.42 lakh as honorarium in their own and relatives’ accounts. After the revelations in the investigation, DM Sujit Kumar terminated the contract of the seven employees and lodged an FIR against five. Apart from this, a recommendation was made to the Director General School Education for departmental action against six block education officers who were negligent in supervision. There is a disturbance in the Basic Education Department due to such a big action outright.
Recently, when the budget was allocated from the government to provide honorarium to the cooks, the BSA sought reports from all the Block Education Officers. Block Education Officer Sirathu Surendra Patel sought information from the principals of the schools by putting the list of cooks on the WhatsApp group for attendance verification. During this, information was received from some schools that the cooks listed in the list are not appointed at all.
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