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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | CBI finds proof against NGOs in health mission scam in UP

CBI finds proof against NGOs in health mission scam in UP

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published Published on Nov 7, 2011   modified Modified on Nov 7, 2011
-The Economic Times
 
CBI carried out searches at 10 places in and around Lucknow over the weekend as part of its probe into alleged irregularities in the National Rural Health Mission programme in Uttar Pradesh. Searches were carried out in offices of NGOs which had been tasked with running NRHM programmes. 

Officers of the investigating agency were busy assessing details of seizures made during the searches. This was the second round of searches conducted by CBI in connection with the NRHM scam, which hogged newspaper headlines after the sensational murder of two chief medical officers (CMOs), and a deputy CMO of the family welfare department in the state capital. 

VK Maurya's alleged murder was followed by the mysterious death of BP Singh. Deputy CMO VS Sachan, who was among the accused, was later killed in the jail, triggering charges of foul play and cover-up from opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh. 

Family welfare minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and health minister Anant Kumar Mishra have been forced to resign after the controversy hogged limelight. The latest round of searches were carried out as part of the exercise to check alleged irregularities in the funds allotted to NGOs for conducting cataract surgeries in rural areas under the National Programme for Blindness Control last year. 

Evidences of irregularities, including inflated bills and invoices, unauthorised cataract camps and fake patients in the records of NGOs were found during the searches, sources said. The agency sleuths also found several records of fictitious patients. 

Most of the patients that had been shown to have been operated for cataract did not exist in reality. CBI has filed two cases after it found leads indicating huge financial bungling by some UP health department officials in connivance with contractors. 

It has alleged in FIRs that officials in-charge of funds released from the Centre under the NRHM head allegedly acted hand-in-gloves with contractors to create fraudulent reimbursement bills in the names of hiring of vehicles and medicine purchases to withdraw funds for personal gains. 

CBI got into the act in July this year after the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court directed it to probe the murder of two CMOs and also dig out the alleged irregularities in implementation of NRHM.


The Economic Times, 8 November, 2011, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/cbi-finds-proof-against-ngos-in-health-mission-scam-in-up/articleshow/10648912.cms


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