– Recommendation for recovery of 5.677.77 from officials out of project cost of over 10 lakh crores
Hyderabad (Gatla News): Justice PC Ghosh has made it clear in his report that the then Chief Minister Kalvakuntla Chandrasekhar Rao is fully responsible for the Kaleshwaram project. If KCR ruled in the CM’s office… Ghosh’s report clearly states that the then ministers Harish Rao and Etela Rajender implemented his decisions, and the officials in the Chief Engineer’s office completed the construction work without looking back. The committee of officials who studied the report given by the commission… submitted the summary of the report to the government. According to the information received by the media, former CM KCR took the decision to construct Medigadda, Sundilla and Annaram barrages. The ministers and officials followed his ideas and orders. The warnings of the expert committee were ignored. The report made it clear that the cabinet did not approve the construction of the barrages. The Ghosh Commission report included in the report that the KCR government did not take any of the financial discipline, precautions, administrative decisions that should be followed when undertaking a project costing thousands of crores. It was commented that the then government leaders acted without accountability. The then ministers wrote a letter to the Prime Minister in 2016, increasing the cost of the Kaleshwaram project, which was initially estimated at Rs. 38,500 crore, to Rs. 71,436 crore before the DPR was submitted by VAPCOS, and finally, in March 2022, they found that administrative approvals were obtained for Rs. 1,10,248.48 (over 10 crore) crore, after greatly increasing the estimates. The BRS has never accepted the Congress allegations that there was corruption of one lakh crore. The project itself cost Rs. It is noteworthy that the counter-argument that there is a corruption of Rs 90,000 crores is not worth mentioning. The Ghosh Commission revealed that the entire Kaleshwaram project planning and construction was done in secret. It said that everything happened under the watchful eye of the then CM, and that the quality defects, design flaws, and the recommendations of the expert committee were ignored. It stated that the then Principal Secretary of Irrigation SK Joshi and the Secretary to the CM Smita Sabharwal violated administrative rules. It found that Chief Engineers Muralidhar and Hariram concealed the facts and gave false information to the Central Water Commission. It recommended that the Rs 677.67 lakhs paid to VAPCOS for the DPR be recovered from the responsible officials.
