Govt. told to submit report within 45 days
Dimapur, Oct. 27 (EMN): The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has declared what it has stated to be findings that apparently showed that funds for the controversial mid-day meal scheme in Nagaland were siphoned by ‘unscrupulous elements.’
The government of Nagaland is asked to expedite investigations into the scheme of the School Education department and submit its report within 45 days.
The NSF issued a copy of a representation to the chief minister on Friday nothing that schemes do not reach the people.
The organization has demanded that the government attend to the matter with urgency with ‘immediate attention’ and action to correct the ‘discrepancies’ in said scheme.
The students’ organization stated to have undertaken ‘thorough physical verification’ in government schools to “ascertain whether the mid day meal scheme was implemented as required and ought to be.” However, the representation stated, ‘almost all the schools do not provide the facilities’ in accordance with the guidelines and in the ‘approved manner’ for implementation.
“Some schools have not even provided mid day meal even once for the academic session of 2017 and as such have entirely deprived and denied the students of their rightful benefits and rights,” the NSF stated.
“We are amazed to discover precisely a contradictory scenario and the schemes never reached the grassroots for whom the project was intended for. The findings of the federation have arrived to a conclusion wherein without any unreasonable doubt we are made to understand that the amount sanctioned for the scheme were siphoned off by some unscrupulous elements.”
The organization has demanded ‘strict disciplinary measure’ to penalize the ‘defaulters.’
‘Therefore, the federation impress upon your competent authority in office to expedite the investigation process being undertaken by the State Vigilance Commission for investigation into irregularities / mismanagement of mid day meal scheme and submit the reports within 45 days,’ the representation added.
