The Chief Minister’s Relief Fund nether the Congress authorities has been streamlined and made accessible to much beneficiaries and treble the magnitude being released per twelvemonth erstwhile compared to erstwhile regime. One large alteration made successful the process to forestall misuse has been to see the beneficiary’s relationship fig connected the cheque.
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government, which ruled the State for 2 consecutive presumption from 2014 to 2023, released connected an mean ₹400 crore per twelvemonth nether CMRF, portion the Revanth Reddy-led authorities spent ₹1,530 crore successful 21 months, which is astir ₹760 crore a year, arsenic per the figures disposable with the Chief Minister’s Office. More importantly, the CMRF money disbursal has been scam-free truthful far, portion transgression cases of misusing the CMRF money were registered against those associated with the BRS MLAs.
Two days ago, the Jubilee Hills constabulary of Hyderabad arrested 7 persons implicit misappropriation of CMRF funds. They were identified arsenic fake beneficiaries who secured CMRF cheques fraudulently. There are abstracted cases registered successful antithetic parts of the State implicit ‘misuse of CMRF cheques’. Investigation is connected to ascertain if determination was a transgression conspiracy by a azygous oregon antithetic gangs.
When Revanth Reddy took implicit the reigns successful December of 2023, the officials were puzzled implicit the mode the CMRF applications were processed by the CMO officials during the BRS regime, and funds were released without pursuing the modular operating procedures. One flaw was that the cheques were issued successful the sanction of the beneficiary. This created a scope for the misuse of the funds. After ‘managing’ to get the CMRF cheque issued, the fraudster would get a slope relationship opened successful that beneficiary’s sanction without the latter’s knowledge. He would deposit the aforesaid successful the slope and retreat the funds.
“We successfully checked this fraud by getting the beneficiary’s slope relationship fig displayed connected the CMRF cheque,” said Officer connected Special Duty with the CMO Vemula Srinivas.
As portion of streamlining the CMRF disbursal, the officials person identified astir 5,100 hospitals registered with the Director of Medical and Health.
Now, the MLAs and MPs are provided with credentials to log into the CMRF authoritative website. The nationalist representatives person to participate details of the individuals seeking monetary assistance nether the CMRF connected the website. Each exertion is fixed a token fig for each aboriginal notation purposes. The exertion is scrutinised and reviewed earlier taking a telephone connected the magnitude to beryllium released.
