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UP health scam probe

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published Published on Nov 19, 2011   modified Modified on Nov 19, 2011

-The Telegraph

 

The CBI today began probing an Uttar Pradesh health scam running into thousands of crores that has led to the murders of two honest government doctors and the sacking of two ministers.

The issue relates to the spending of Rs 10,000 crore allocated to the state under the National Rural Health Mission.

CBI spokesperson Dharini Mishra said the agency had registered five preliminary inquiries on the orders of Allahabad High Court, which has given it four months to complete the investigations.

Earlier this week, Rahul Gandhi had alleged that the Mayawati government had siphoned off central welfare funds, rendering the rural job scheme and rural health mission useless in Uttar Pradesh.

Two chief medical officers (CMOs), Vinod Arya and B.P. Singh, who had ordered internal inquiries into funds misuse under the mission from their offices were murdered in October last year and April this year.

Mayawati later sacked the state family welfare minister, Babu Singh Kushwaha, and his deputy Anant Mishra over the corruption relating to the mission, which was being handled by their department.

The CBI said a team of 26 officers — including an additional director, a joint director, two deputy inspectors-general and five superintendents of police — will carry out the probe.

They will be assisted by experts in banking, accountancy, engineering works and computer forensics, and Union health and family welfare ministry officials dealing with the rural health mission.

CBI officials say the funds were spent through 72 CMOs and other nodal offices across Uttar Pradesh, and the projects were executed through public sector units and an army of contractors and private firms.

‘Death threat’

Kushwaha, the sacked minister, has written to Mayawati alleging a threat to his life from his colleagues in the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and some bureaucrats.

His letter says that ever since he resigned owning moral responsibility for the murder of the two CMOs, some ministers and bureaucrats have teamed up against him to settle personal scores.

BSP state chief Swami Prasad Maurya dismissed Kushwaha’s claims, accusing him of indulging in “dramatics” to distract attention from the assets probe against him by the Lokayukta and the public interest litigation against him in the high court.

Kushwaha’s letter, dated November 17, asks Mayawati to ensure “my life is protected”. He has sent copies to the Prime Minister, governor, chief justices of the Supreme Court and Allahabad High Court, CBI director and the principal secretary (home). Maurya said Mayawati had not received the letter.

The Telegraph, 20 November, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111120/jsp/nation/story_14775730.jsp


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