Agartala, April 3 -- Tripura Tribal Welfare department has issued show cause notices to 34 students for submitting false income tax certificate to avail scholarship and asked them to explain why FIRs should not be lodged against them for alleged forgery.
Show cause has given 15 days time to submit their responses after they were allegedly found to have applied for ST Post-Matric Scholarship for 2023-24 through the National Scholarship Portal (NSP) using fake income certificates, said Director of Tripura Tribal Welfare Department Subhasish Das.
It has been revealed from the inquiries conducted by competent administrative authorities that 34 students had applied for ST Post-Matric Scholarship for 2023-24 through the NSP, uploading fake inco...