Too bold: 66 counties embezzled nearly 2 billion rural students' meal subsidies to pay off debts and pay welfare

Zhu Feng Shenkan

2024-07-02 15:23

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The subsidy for nutritious meals for rural students is not "Tang monk meat", which is the basic principle of the State Council to start the implementation of the nutrition improvement plan for rural compulsory education students. For example, Shuangpai County Chalin School seized the loophole that "the number of days of nutritious meal subsidies allocated by superiors to students is more than the actual number of days that students actually eat at school", and kept the "over-allocated" nutritious meal subsidies privately and distributed them to teachers and staff as benefits.

It's terrible: According to the work report of the Audit Office, it has been found that 66 counties have been involved and nearly 2 billion rural students have been misappropriated for nutritious meals, some of which are used to repay debts, and some are even used for welfare! 41 counties and 1,533 schools have intercepted and squeezed 270 million yuan in disguised form by lowering the standard of feeding and fictitious procurement business; some have been colluded to arbitrage, and the education departments of 5 counties have conspired with the winning suppliers to extract 42.1602 million yuan through supplier dividends and donations, which will be used to distribute benefits

To solve this problem, a multi-pronged approach is needed. First of all, relevant departments at all levels and localities should seriously deal with relevant personnel suspected of violating discipline and laws and regulations, and take effective measures to plug the loopholes in the management of subsidy funds and the supervision of catering enterprises, so as to prevent the recurrence of such incidents. Secondly, the relevant departments should also make full use of new means such as big data to strengthen the daily supervision of the use of relevant subsidies, keep a close eye on capital expenditures, and check daily accounts one by one. At the same time, it is necessary to promptly publicize the typical cases investigated and handled, and always keep the sword hanging high, so as to achieve the effect of setting an example, and prompting the relevant personnel not to dare to move or occupy.

Finally, what do you think of the 66 counties misappropriating nearly 2 billion rural students' meal subsidies to repay debts and pay benefits?