Last Updated on 12/08/2024 by Arun jain
A big fraud has come to light in the Chief Minister’s mass marriage scheme in Sultanpur, UP. Even mothers of two children were already married under this scheme. After large scale corruption came to light in the mass marriage scheme, the DM has taken action against the block level officer.
34 married women were remarried
The surprising thing is that not just one or two but 34 such cases have come to light in Sultanpur where mothers of two children each have been given the benefit of the Chief Minister’s mass marriage scheme. This case is related to Baldirai and Kudwar blocks.
According to the report, the social welfare officer has been negligent in this matter. After the matter escalated, the DM suspended the Gram Vikas Adhikari, while recommending action against the ADO, ordered an inquiry. Let us tell you that under the mass marriage scheme, every couple gets Rs 51000.
Fake marriage was done on 11-12 July
In fact, on 11th July, 81 couples were married in Baldirai Vikas Khand and on 12th July, 67 couples were married in Kudwar Block under the Mukhyamantri Samuh Vivah Yojana. In both the places, government money was wasted on a large scale in this program.
Sarita and Shanti of Mahuli village of Baldirai are sisters-in-law. Sarita got married to Raju about eight years ago. She has two sons. The elder son is five years old and the younger one is about seven months old. On July 12, Sarita was married to her own husband in Kudwar.
Shanti, the daughter of a man named Bhagelu, was also married on the same day, while in reality she was married five years ago in Umra village, and she also has a one-year-old son. Apart from this, there are many such women who were married under this mass marriage program, while in reality they are already married and are mothers of many children.
No investigation was conducted
In fact, twenty-four marriages were conducted in Mahuli Gram Panchayat on 11th and 12th July while ten marriages were conducted in Bhakhri, but in the list of ten beneficiaries of Bhakhri on the website, there are four-five women from Mahuli. Bhakhri Pradhan representative Suraj Vaish and Mahuli Pradhan representative Shiv Singh confirmed this and said that earlier the secretary used to take information from us for its verification, but this time it has not happened.
What are the rules of mass marriage program
According to the rules, the applications received on the portal are sent by the ADO (Social Welfare) to the Block Development Officer, the BDO gets it verified by the village secretary and then reports online, but Rahul Yadav says that no verification has been done by us.
Now after the fraud came to light, Kudwar Block Development Officer Neelima Gupta has been made the investigating officer. District Social Welfare Officer Amit Kumar Singh said that the Assistant Development Officer is handling the charge of Social Welfare in Baldirai. On the order of the DM, a recommendation has been made to the government through the CDO for the suspension of Abhishek Giri.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)