Summary:
We have booked the social welfare officer, backward class welfare officer, minority welfare officer, basic shiksha adhikari , assistant basic shiksha adhikari, and three other officials, besides the principal and manager of each school,” the officer said. Mostly junior and primary schools were involved in the fraud,” he added.“Each student used to get Rs 300-400 as scholarship money. More schools are under scanner.” The probe in Etawah is being conducted by the Kanpur unit of EOW while the Meerut office is probing the scam in Meerut. A senior EOW official in Kanpur said that over Rs 1crore had been embezzled in a year. The total loss over two years could be over Rs 2 crore..