The tribal department has also written to the agriculture department seeking a departmental probe against him. The report says the department’s Integrated Tribal Development Project’s (ITDP) office in Nandurbar’s Taloda had released the funds without any scrutiny. Tribal development minister Vishnu Sawra, meanwhile, said that “others responsible for the scandal would also be acted against”. The tribal department is verifying the role of officials from its own department in the scam. An impostor played a key role in siphoning crores of rupees earmarked for the poor in Maharashtra’s Nandurbar district.

Source: Indian Express June 13, 2016 23:15 UTC