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After gathering representatives of the Karnataka State Contractors’ Association and Greater Bengaluru Authority Contractors’ Association connected Saturday, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar said, “I tin recognize the symptom of contractors, but nary 1 tin endanger the government.”
Responding to the media, helium said, “During the tenure of the BJP authorities successful the State, much enactment was taken up than the Budget permitted, which has accrued the problem. I person cleared arsenic galore bills arsenic possible. The contractors present are not the lone ones affected, they are dispersed crossed the State.”
“For instance, successful the Irrigation Department, which comes nether my portfolio, determination is simply a assistance of astir ₹200 crore, but pending bills magnitude to ₹17,000 crore. With conscionable ₹200 crore available, whose bills should beryllium cleared and nether which account?” helium questioned.
New system
“Small contractors person pending bills ranging from ₹15 lakh to ₹1 crore, portion ample contractors person dues up to ₹2,000 crore. All of them are exerting immense pressure, truthful it’s intolerable to conscionable everyone’s demands. That’s wherefore I program to present a caller system,” helium said, without elaborating the strategy helium intended to introduce.
Further helium said that the contractors raised the contented of commission. “I told them to record a ailment and that we would behaviour an enquiry into it. No 1 tin endanger the authorities implicit demands for committee successful the merchandise of bills. The contractors are present saying that they did not marque immoderate allegations regarding the committee issue,” helium said.
Contractors’ claims
Meanwhile, the Karnataka State Contractors’ Association claimed that the Deputy Chief Minister had directed officials to instantly wide bills up to ₹50 lakh successful each 4 corporations nether the Water Resources Department.
In a statement, G.M. Ravindra, wide caput of the association, said that the Deputy Chief Minister instructed officials to instrumentality punctual enactment to settee bills up to ₹50 lakh successful each 4 corporations nether the Water Resources Department.
On Friday, the relation warned that it would merchandise a ‘corruption study card’ connected the State authorities successful December if the pending magnitude of ₹33,000 crore from the past 2 years is not cleared wrong a month.
