HC stops funding to Pawar’s institution

Under the KGBV scheme, 750 residential schools for girls belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other minority communities were to be set up. The non-governmental or non-profit making bodies running these schools get Rs 57 lakh annually from the government.

The petition alleges that the permission granting authority, Maharashtra Prathamik Shikshan Parishad, “without giving public notices distributed grant money to political workers and heavyweights’’. The schools under the scanner include institutions run by Sharad Pawar, Shahada MLA P K Anna Patil, former Congress minister Pushpatai Hire, Surgana MLA J P Gawit and former Ambad (Jalna) MLA V V Kharat.