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HYDERABAD
Deputy Floor Leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) successful the Assembly T. Harish Rao has alleged a large scam successful the operation of Young India Integrated Schools by the Congress Government successful the State.
In a chat with newspersons earlier presumption of the Budget for 2026-27 by the authorities successful the Assembly connected Friday, helium stated that the process of tenders was already completed for 76 integrated schools but not adjacent 1 among them was sanctioned to the 26 constituencies represented by BRS MLAs. He termed it favoritism and revenge.
However, the schools were sanctioned to each the 10 constituencies represented by 10 MLAs who had defected from BRS to Congress and adjacent to the constituencies represented by immoderate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs. Alleging a large scam successful the implementation of the integrated schools scheme, helium said contractors had formed into a ringing and quoted excess/exorbitant rates to container the tenders.
He accused the authorities of scripting a conspiracy to springiness contracts to companies linked to the ruling enactment leaders by ensuring that the bidding prices did not transverse 5% successful excess of the estimated outgo by keeping the excess quotes from 4.59% to 4.96%. Of the ₹250 crore allocation to each integrated school, ₹150 crore was earmarked for civilian works alone.
Against the estimated outgo of ₹10,199.54 crore for the 76 integrated schools, the ringing of contractors had bagged them for ₹10,693.55 crore oregon ₹494 crore successful excess of the estimates. In the constituencies represented by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy (Kodangal) and Deputy CM M. Bhatti Vikramarka (Madhira), the tenders were bagged with 4.95% excess rates, helium explained.
Further, helium stated that the excess rates quoted for bagging the tender was 4.95% each besides successful Huzurnagar (N. Uttam Kumar Reddy), Husnabad (Ponnam Prabhakar), Khammam (Tummala Nageswara Rao) and Mulugu (D. Seethakka) constituencies. The excess rates were 4.89% each for Warangal East (Konda Surekha), Andole (C. Damodar Rajnarsimha), Vikarabad (Gaddam Prasad Kumar) and Manthani (D. Sridhar Babu) constituencies.
Similarly, the excess quotes were 4.87% for Nalgonda (Komatireddy Venkat Reddy) and 4.77% for Kollapur (Jupally Krishna Rao) constituencies. Along with the declaration for operation of an integrated schoolhouse successful Kodangal constituency the KSLR institution was awarded contracts of 8 different schools. Mr. Harish Rao stated that helium would rise the contented on with much details successful the Assembly.
