After years of claims that the Kaleshwaram Elevate Irrigation Scheme is the best river venture constructed within the quickest time attainable, and portraying it as the ultimate resolution of types for all irrigation and consuming water provide shortages in Telangana, the crows have come residence roost for former chief minister Ok. Chandrashekar Rao. The Bharat Rashtra Samithi president had by no means as soon as let up on any alternative to declare that he was the person, the brains and the driving power behind the venture.
Nonetheless, the report from the Justice P.C. Ghose Fee of Inquiry constituted final yr by the Congress authorities to inquire into irregularities with respect to KLIS’s barrages are nothing wanting a nightmare for Mr Rao and his get together.
A lot to the BRS’s chagrin, the fee unequivocally positioned Mr Rao on the centre of all determination making and the eventual severe damages to the Medigadda barrage, a portion of which has cracked and sank into the river mattress, and comparable issues of lesser depth at Annaram and Sundilla.
Whereas a political battle is already on between the BRS bristling with indignation and the Congress authorities led by A. Revanth Reddy who made it clear the federal government will not be focused on a witch hunt, the takeaway isn’t just concerning the profligacy of the then BRS authorities that spent round Rs 90,000 crore on KLIS, however about Mr Rao’s Ozymandian sense of infallibility.
The fee known as every little thing concerning the barrages a results of a one-man present led by Mr Rao with the lesser actors doing every little thing they’ll to make the needs of 1 man come true with out consideration of the implications — giving a go-by to guidelines, rules, and worst of all, elementary design and engineering necessities.
What was speculated to be, at the least in Mr Rao’s thoughts, a sequence of edifices that will stand the check of time and write his title in historical past books as a person who achieved the inconceivable and stand tall at the least 100 years, started decaying the yr they had been put to make use of in 2019. No quantity of cover-ups may save the day for him, or his get together from a political drubbing in elections as soon as Medigadda barrage cracked.
The Ghose Fee report made it clear that neither Ok. Chandrashekar Rao, nor his foot troopers had public good of their hearts or minds. The BRS and Mr Rao can have many bones to choose within the coming days, however it’s unlikely that the person himself will get his ageing ft moist within the battle that lies forward for him.
For, all those that colluded within the Kaleshwaram venture haven’t solely laid to waste a political profession but additionally huge assets that no state can afford to squander within the method that they did with the Kaleshwaram venture’s barrages.
ACB raids on engineers related to the venture have revealed huge wealth working into a whole bunch of crores of rupees amassed by them, whereas the end result of hire looking for behaviour by their political masters would possibly reveal much more mind-boggling numbers.
For the Congress authorities, the decision for motion is obvious that this isn’t about politics however about taking the investigations to their logical conclusion, punishing the responsible as per legislation and making the contractors restore the barrages at their very own value as advisable by the Ghose Fee.
