PK Jaiswar Amritsar, October 31 Days after registration of a bungling case against members of the management committee of National Model Middle School (a government-aided institution) at Patti in Tarn Taran for bungling government grants, the Vigilance Bureau is trying to identify other aided schools which might have been be involved in irregular practices. A Vigilance officer, wishing not to be named, said that the bureau had received certain inputs regarding several schools involved in similar practices to siphon off government money. He said the bureau was keeping an eye on them. The people should inform the Vigilance Bureau if they have any information regarding fraud in government-aided schools, he added. On October 10, Vigilance sleuths had booked the principal and management members of the government-aided school at Patti in Tarn Taran besides unknown bank employees for fraud, forgery, criminal conspiracy and corruption. As per officials, headmaster Sandeep Kumar Chhabra and Veena Kumari, president, management committee of National Model Middle School, opened fake bank accounts on the basis of forged documents in the name of teachers who had left the school. During investigation, it came to light that Chhabra was transferring the money to his bank account through cheques. The spokesperson added that the investigating officer-cum-principal, Harbhagwant Singh, posted at the District Insitute of Education and Training (DIET), Verka, Amritsar, had conducted an inspection of the school and found irregularities in the drawing and disbursement of staff salaries. No arrest has been made till now as the suspects have taken arrest stay from a court, the Vigilance officer added.

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