Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) President and former Telangana Chief Minister Ok. Chandrasekhar Rao will seem earlier than Justice PC Ghose Fee, probing irregularities within the execution of the Kaleshwaram Carry Irrigation challenge, on June 11.
KCR, as Chandrasekhar Rao is popularly recognized, was requested to look on June 5, however on his request, the Fee modified the date.
The Fee on Could 20 had issued notices to KCR, former minister T. Harish Rao and BJP MP Eatala Rajender. BRS chief Harish Rao has been summoned on June 6. Rajender has been directed to look earlier than the Fee on June 9.
When KCR was the Chief Minister, Harish Rao was the Irrigation Minister, whereas Rajender was the Finance Minister.
The Fee, headed by retired Supreme Courtroom choose Pinaki Chandra Ghose, is probing the alleged irregularities in planning, design, development, high quality management, operation and upkeep of Medigadda, Annaram, and Sundilla Barrages of the Kaleshwaram challenge.
The one-man Fee was constituted in March 2024, a couple of months after some piers of the Medigadda Barrage caved in.
The time period of the Fee has been prolonged repeatedly for seven instances up to now after its preliminary time period ended on June 30, 2024. Notices to KCR, Harish Rao and Rajender had been issued a day after the state authorities prolonged the Fee’s time period for 2 extra months, until July 31, to allow it to finish the examination of all these concerned.
The Fee has up to now examined over 100 engineers, retired and serving officers related to the barrages and others. A lot of the engineers who had been examined by the Fee both admitted to lapses within the procedures or expressed ignorance about decision-making.
The Fee examined varied paperwork, together with the ultimate report of the Nationwide Dam Security Authority, the Vigilance report and different information.
The panel was anticipated to submit its report back to the federal government on Could 21 or 22. Nevertheless, the Fee determined to look at KCR, Harish Rao and Rajender as a lot of the engineers and officers who deposed earlier than it said that the selections had been taken within the presence of the then Chief Minister and that they acted on the Chief Minister’s and ministers’ orders.
The BRS alleged that the discover to KCR is an try by the Congress authorities to cowl up its corruption and failures.
