A Quiet Diversion
Centrally sponsored scheme money re-routed to a state debt account.
New Delhi·By Asha Verghese & R. Okonkwo·Delhi desk
The transfer was legal in form and hollow in substance: funds earmarked for rural sanitation entered a consolidated account on a Friday and left it on the Monday, servicing an unrelated market borrowing.
What it changed
Recovery of ₹41 crore directed by the union ministry.
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