The House Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes came down heavily on BJP leader Madan Mohan Mittal Wednesday for not taking action against 90 educational institutions that fraudulently drew scholarship money from the exchequer in the name of fake admissions, when he was technical education minister.
It recommended that criminal cases be lodged against these institutions.
An audit had revealed that these institutions had shown fake admissions to claim post-matric scholarships given to SC students. A report of the committee was tabled in the House Wednesday, in which it expressed shock that they were let off by just refunding the scholarship amount they had claimed.