The State authorities has swung into motion with out losing a lot time for inquiring into the alleged irregularities within the execution of Kaleshwaram Elevate Irrigation Mission (KLIP) following the caving-in of some piers of the Medigadda Barrage of the venture and different damages equivalent to seepage and cracks seen within the two upstream barrages — Annaram and Sundilla.
A number of groups of officers of the Vigilance and Enforcement division raided the places of work of the Irrigation division from Engineer-in-Chief (ENC) to Govt Engineer (EE) stage at about 10 places on Tuesday. In response to extremely positioned sources, the V&E groups performed searches in KLIP places of work at Mahadevpur, Karimnagar, Warangal, Ramagundam and Hyderabad.
In response to highly-placed sources, the groups had seized information, paperwork and laborious disks of computer systems in order that they might not be tampered with. The main focus of searches was to seek out out irregularities each within the technical (engineering) and monetary facets. The paperwork of tasks works from the pre-bid stage have been taken for investigation.
The V&E authorities are planning to take the help of consultants from the JNTU-H within the matter of engineering facets and chartered accountants in case of monetary facets. It’s understood that the State authorities has directed the V&E Division to inquire into the irregularities earlier than instituting a judicial probe following the Irrigation division authorities’ alleged reluctance to share the small print even on the assessment conferences performed on the Minister-level.
It’s learnt that the V&E inquiry has been instituted first sensing the potential of tampering with paperwork/data by a minimum of a number of the irrigation engineers/officers to cowl up their errors, if any, within the execution of tasks throughout the earlier Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) authorities interval.
The Congress social gathering has been alleging large-scale irregularities and corruption within the execution of irrigation tasks, notably KLIP, from the start and Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy introduced about instituting a judicial probe into the irregularities throughout the first session of the Legislature itself final month.
He made the announcement within the Legislative Council and it was reiterated later by Deputy Chief Minister M. Bhatti Vikramarka and Minister for Irrigation N. Uttam Kumar Reddy. Later within the day, Mr. Uttam Reddy said that the State authorities had given instructions for a vigilance inquiry into the KLIP irregularities and that the federal government had already requested the Chief Justice of the Excessive Court docket for allotment of a choose for inquiring into the irregularities.
