Chandigarh: The Punjab State Scheduled Castes Commission has ordered vigilance probe against the bungling of funds pertaining to scholarships by a private college of Patiala. The commission has ordered the probe after probe at its own level.

Chandigarh: The Punjab State Scheduled Castes Commission has ordered vigilance probe against the bungling of funds pertaining to scholarships by a private college of Patiala. The commission has ordered the probe after probe at its own level.

Disclosing this here today, the Chairman of the Commission Rajesh Bagha said that the commission had received a complaint from the B.Ed and ETT students of a private college of Patiala regarding illicit levying of fees from the students belonging to SC category and defrauding them by spreading misinformation regarding the free admissions. In this way, the college bungled the funds received from Punjab Government/Union Government concerning the scholarships.

He further said that the matter was investigated by the District Welfare Officer, Patiala who visited the college and found that the fees amounting to Rs. 39950 annually was levied from the students and no receipt for the same was issued. Similarly, the students hailing from SC category were made to shell out Rs. 6930 and no receipt regarding the same was given either. The complaint was also investigated by the Director, Education Department, Punjab but the outcome was not clear.

Bagha said that afterwards, the complaint was probed by the Senior Vice Chairman SC Commission Mr. Raj Singh and Member SC Commission, Punjab, Chandigarh Prabh Dyal which proved the bungling of scholarship funds. So, the commission has instructed the Welfare Department to get the case probed by the vigilance department.