KOLHAPUR: The district primary education department is still clueless about the number of students who have received the money in their accounts for buying school uniforms.It may be noted that to bring in transparency, the government had decided to deposit the money for purchasing school uniform directly into the beneficiaries account from this year onwards. Under the scheme the beneficiary student will receive Rs 400 for buying a pair of school uniform. Parents were asked to purchase the uniform by themselves and produce the receipt to the respective school principal.However, when contacted Subhash Chougule, district primary education officer, said they are unaware how many students have received the money and that he is yet to review the situation. When contacted later in the evening, Chougule did not attend repeated calls."There are 1.20 lakh beneficiaries under the school uniform scheme and information regarding the amount of money deposited is still awaited," said an official from the education department.An official from the department said that clear instructions were issued to block education officers and respective school principals to deposit the money and send the information to the district primary education department. According to the official, despite several reminders, the data from the block authorities is still awaited.The official said, "A written complaint was received in the first week of July from Shirol taluka from a parent about banks demanding money to open their accounts. We had then sent the district led banks a letter directing them to open bank accounts of beneficiaries free of charge. However we have not heard of anything after that."

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