The
Shillong Times: Shillong: Thursday, 12 February 2015.
Following the
application of Right to Information Act, Hynniewtrap Youth Council (HYC) has
unearthed a major scam pertaining to purchase of M-tab, which were distributed
among Class XII students in 2014 under the Chief Minister’s Student Digital
Learning Aid Scheme.
As per the
RTI documents received from the Information and Technology department, the HYC
has found that there is a misuse of over Rs 6 crore in the purchase of M-tab.
The RTI
documents revealed that the department had spent a total amount of Rs 22, 47,
50,000 for the purchase of 25,000 M-tab (model XTRON Z704).
According to
RTI document, the government quoted price of each M-tab is Rs 8,990, while its
printed price is Rs 6,850.
The State Government should have spent around
Rs 17, 12, 50,000 as per the price of the tablet printed in the carton.
Further, the
HYC cross checked with the firm Lava International, which supplied the device
to the State Government. According to the firm, the Meghalaya Government
received the entire lot at the rate of Rs 6,499 each M-tab.
“With the
price quoted by the firm, the State Government should have spent only Rs 16,
24, 75,000″ HYC organizing secretary Nickson Dohling told newsmen here on
Wednesday.
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