Higher Education Department says there is no proof of corruption by using former Punjab CM LAHORE: A file submitted by the Higher Education Department (HED) to the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday absolved the previous chief minister, Shehbaz Sharif, in a case involving embezzlement inside the authorities’ PC scheme for students.
In a written reply to a query submitted in the Punjab Assembly, the HED admitted that neither any corruption might be discovered in laptop distribution nor any of the gadgets that had long passed missing.
“The former authorities dispensed 414,848 laptops on the premise of advantage from 2012 to 2017,” read the response. It further said that the allegation of politicians’ or bureaucrats’ involvement in irregularities regarding laptop distribution was also no longer actual.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore has been engaging in an inquiry because, in March 2018, not an unmarried man or woman was observed responsible for corruption. The inquiry also blanketed former director of Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Ahad Cheema.
According to the authorities document, one hundred ten,000 laptops bought within the financial year 2011-12 cost Rs4197 million, in which Rs3995 million had been spent on 100,000 laptops purchased in 2012-13. It said that Rs4949 million and Rs6954 million were spent on acquiring laptops in 2013-14 and 2016-17, respectively.
The laptop distribution scheme aimed to advance facts technology among college students via computer systems. The Punjab authorities allotted 110,000 laptops to college students across the province allegedly to counter the growing reputation of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan among the young people simply three hundred and sixty-five days earlier than the 2013 preferred elections. However, a special audit by the government’s wing – the Auditor General’s Office – mentioned critical corruption in the scheme.
