Dehradun, July 23 -- Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday said that any kind of irregularity will not be tolerated in welfare programmes like scholarships in the state and vowed to take strict action against anyone found guilty in this case.

Taking cognisance of the serious cases of irregularities committed by institutions registered on the National Scholarship Portal and the embezzlement of scholarship amounts through the use of fake documents, Chief Minister Dhami has given instructions to constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT).

During the preliminary investigation, it was discovered that some institutions had received minority scholarships based on fraudulent documents, including some madrasas, Sanskrit sc...