Reports of huge corruption in awarding contacts for constructing irrigation projects in Andhra Pradesh is creating furore in government and official circles.
There are largescale complaint on unholy nexus between TDP leaders and contractors to loot hundreds of crores of rupees of public money under the guise of irrigation projects.
The situation worsened to such an extent that some senior IAS officers are coming out in open against the AP government expressing fears about being part of 'contract award committees' when officials have no role or power in deciding contracts and government bosses themselves are taking unilateral decisions on whom to be awarded contract and for how much cost.
Officials are even requesting government bosses not to appoint them in contract award committees and seeking abolition of such committees when politicians and ministers themselves deciding the contracts.
Finance secretary Ramesh even shot off a letter to government questioning the continuance of such committees comprising of officials when they have no role or say in them.
YSRCP spokesperson Vasireddy Padma said TDP leaders were looting hundreds of crores of public money in the name of irrigation projects.
She demanded the government to inquire into the irrigation contracts that were awarded during the last 17 months by a sitting judge of High Court or Supreme Court.
Padma termed AP CM Chandrababu Naidu as the 'lovely son' of corruption and World Bank.
