Direct Benefit Transfer is direct siphoning of school scholarship

The Lord Krishna Public School in Ghughri, Ranchi, has just five rooms but records show 324 students received scholarships for 2019-20, including 213 ‘hostel’ students. (Express Photo: Abhishek Angad)

# A 28-year-old homemaker in Giridih, a Ranchi couple in their 30s, the 47-year-old wife of a tailor in Lohardaga receive, in their bank accounts, funds of a Central government scholarship meant for pre-matric minority students. All of them say they are unaware of this.

# Several students across at least six districts in Jharkhand have had their Aadhaar cards and fingerprints taken,…