TRS wants Jalayagnam files seized

Hyderabad

Oct. 12: The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has asked the director-general of the Anti-Corruption Bureau to seize all the documents pertaining to the engineering, procurement and construction contracts under Jalayagnam programme before the government orders a high level
probe.
According to the TRS, thousands of crores of rupees had been swindled in the irrigation projects.
The TRS president, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, who has decided to intensify his campaign on the issue, sent a letter to the ACB DG, Mr K. Aravinda Rao, through the TRS floor leader, Mr Etala Rajender, Mr T. Harish Rao, and others.
“EPC contractors of irrigation produced bogus, fabricated documents regarding eligibility, bank guarantees, experience and other stipulations,” he said in the
letter. “The loss of life, property, cattle, crops, houses, movables in the recent floods is the direct result of massive fraud in the EPC contracts. The floods have caused untold misery, suffering and trauma to the people.”
The EPC system of contracts was first introduced by the former Chief Minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu and was taken up by his successor, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy to award contracts for irrigation and other projects.
In a related issue, the TRS politburo member, Mr Madhusudhana Chary, said the TRS chief, Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao, was ready for a debate on the issue and asked the major irrigation minister, Mr Ponnala Laxmaiah to fix the date, time and venue for it.
“We will prove that it was a man-made disaster,” he said.
Source::DC