CBI takes over investigation into 'financial irregularities' in Rajiv Gandhi National Creche Scheme

The Central Bureau of Investigation has taken over the investigation into alleged financial irregularities in the running of the Rajiv Gandhi National Creche Scheme in which the Indian Council for Child Welfare was one of the implementing agencies officials said ThursdayThe CBI took up the case against unidentified persons under IPC sections of criminal breach of trust and cheating on a reference from the Ministry of Women and Child Development which had earlier filed an FIR with Delhi PoliceThe Delhi High Court had constituted a threemember committee under the chairmanship of the ministrys joint secretary to look into alleged irregularities in the scheme which the Centre implemented till 2016According to the Indian Council for Child Welfare ICCW 5029 creches were functional across the country in 201516 Based on the committees findings the high court had directed the Centre to take a view if a probe by an agency like the CBI is warranted or notIt was pointed out that there were several lacunae in the manner the funds received by the ICCW were distributed to the state councils It is alleged that funds were distributed without reference to the ground situation regarding the number of creches functioning and children enrolled therein for which extra funds were demanded The extra funds were with the state councils and there was no visible effort to refund the additional funds takenThe High Court Committee and minutes of EC ICCW executive committee show that the existence of creches at ground level was much below of even that reported by the state councils leaving a huge margin between fund requirement and fund demanded The use of this margin of funds is not apparent because records are not maintained as per accounting requirements and also a large part of the final disbursement is in cash in all places where records have been traced the FIR points outAlso read Delhi HC says vulgar language on social media needs to be taken seriouslyIt said the executive committee EC of ICCW is the decisionmaking body and manages its activities It is seen that EC has been aware of the fact that its programmes were not running as per requirement There has been no sharing of this information In fact knowing that the creches or other programmes were not running properly projection of funds were still made as if all aspects were fully functional the FIR allegedIt alleged that the level of management shown by ICCW in running various initiatives of the Ministry does not commensurate with requirementsManagement is seen to be turning more lax in adherence to scheme guidelines pertaining to programmes assigned to ICCW The recordsshow that progress is not as per target in all programmes the FIR allegedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever