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Recent scams and controversies in India
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National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM)
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Supreme Court found severe financial holes in government’s scheme to construct permanent housing facilities for the urban poor under the National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM).
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In the last financial year, Centre had released Rs. 1,078 crore to states for constructing housing facilities for over 9 lakh urban homeless people. However, only a 208 houses were built across the country.
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Funds granted to all the states were ‘utilized’ only by 14 states while no altering in the urbanscape was seen in the remaining 11 states and Union Territories. UP constructed 37 houses for Rs. 180 crore, while Maharashtra could not manage a single wall from the Rs. 170 crore it was given.
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The funds released for a urban poor development scheme under NULM, in 790 cities were aimed at constructing permanent, all-weather houses for the homeless urban population.
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Vyapam Scam
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MP Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal, also known as Vyapam, conducts almost every exam in the state for government job seekers and for admission to educational institutes in the state. The scam involves massive corruption and irregularities in the entrance examination.
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It was a massive admission and recruitment scam involving politicians, senior officials and businessmen in Madhya Pradesh.
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Indore Bench of MP High Court served notices to Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) and Medical Council of India (MCI) following a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by parents of some students after reports that more than 300 ineligible candidates managed to get into the merit list.
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Dr AnandRai, the whistleblower has alleged that undeserving candidates received help through illegal means in the entrance exams. He added that impersonators took the test on behalf of actual candidates. In some cases, a person was strategically placed between two persons who let them copy from their answer sheet and at other times, OMR sheets were randomly scored and later filled accordingly by the Board officials.
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Chikki' Scam
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A scam worth Rs 206 crore.
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BJP MLA Pankaja Munde : Maharashtra women and child development minister.
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The minister had allegedly cleared purchase of chikkis (sweet cookies with nuts and dry fruits in a jaggery base), mats and books for Rs 206 crore without floating tenders for the same. According to rules, any government purchase above Rs 3 lakh has to be done through e-tendering.
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The daughter of union minister GopinathMunde, who died in a road accident in New Delhi last year, is accused of doling out the multi-crore-rupee contracts on a single day (February 13) instead of adopting the e-tendering or tender route.
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Education minister VinodTawde is the second minister in the Maharashtra government to be accused of irregularities in awarding contracts.
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