‘Mobile’ scam in Uttarakhand! Phones worth 13 crores became junk without using

If you want to see how government money is disposed, then come to Uttarakhand. Every now and then other departments have been accused of scams.

Uttarakhand women empowerment department mobile scam
According to a news, this time a big mess has come to the fore in the purchase of mobile in the Department of Women’s Empowerment and Child Development. It is alleged that the department had bought 22 thousand mobile phones and the same number of power banks for the Anganwadi workers. The total cost of which was stated to be Rs 13 crore. Despite the purchase in bulk, the department bought a phone for eight thousand 46 rupees, while the online price of the same phone is less than five and a half thousand. Well, this is a matter of purchase, but it is a matter of regret that these phones, which were bought by spending crores, could not be useful even for the Anganwadi workers.

Uttarakhand mobile scam
The case pertains to the years 2018 and 2019. The government bought 22,000 mobile phones and an equal number of power banks to provide to Anganwadi workers, so that they can update online activities like vaccination, distribution of take home ration. There was also a special software in it, named Nutrition Tracker App, but this app is not open in most of the mobiles. Anganwadi workers say that they submitted these phones back to the department within six months. Because neither data was being fed in the phone nor the app was opening. The processing capacity of mobile was very less. According to the news, when RTI activist Raghunath Negi sought information from the department in this matter, many discrepancies came to the fore. Read further

They say that the mobiles purchased were of very less 2 GB RAM, the internal storage capacity was also only 16 GB. Whereas, for this, there should have been a mobile of at least 6 GB RAM. In this way 13 crore phones got junked. Raghunath Negi has also alleged scam in the purchase of sarees for Anganwadi workers. He said that the department has procured 66 thousand six hundred saris and suits for Anganwadi workers in 2021. Whose cost came to two crore sixty lakh rupees. In this bulk purchase, the cost of a sari has been shown to be Rs 393 and that of a suit is Rs 398, but their quality is so bad that no one wants to wear them. Congress state vice president Suryakant Dhasmana says that this is a big corruption. The Chief Minister should take immediate cognizance of this and take action.