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HYDERABAD
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has alleged a ₹500 crore scam successful the centralised procurement of groceries, furnishings and different worldly for SC, ST, BC, Minorities and different Residential Schools, Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas and Model Schools.
In an unfastened missive addressed to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, BRS MLC and authoritative spokesperson Dasoju Sravan said connected Saturday that the Congress Government had introduced centralised procurement nether the aegis of State-level task monitoring portion caput by the Social Welfare Secretary aft scrapping the erstwhile strategy of territory level procurement by a territory procurement committee headed by District Collectors.
The State-level procurement had unveiled centralised corruption with the authorities bigwigs eyeing immense kick-backs. The territory level procurement for 3 months each by a committee headed by District Collector was discontinued with the sole nonsubjective of collecting commissions astatine the State-level, helium alleged.
He pointed retired that alternatively of supplying well-known and GI-tagged ‘Tandur’ redgram (tur) dal, the centralised procurement was allowing inferior prime dal imported from African countries. With the mandatory ₹165 crore turnover clause successful the caller system, the Congress Government had kept speech tiny traders and women self-help groups from participating successful tenders.
The BRS person sought to cognize wherefore purchases from the authorities bureau Markfed purchasing crops straight from farmers astatine enactment terms was not allowed if the centralised procurement was better. The caller strategy was introduced lone to payment backstage contractors and successful crook get immense kickbacks.
He stated that determination were allegations of large-scale corruption successful the acquisition of bunker beds and uniforms done by the State-level task monitoring portion and respective cases were already filed successful the High Court.
