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Alleging superior irregularities and a multi-crore corruption successful transformer procurement, the members of Centre For Liberty (CFL) submitted a petition to Andhra Pradesh Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (APSPDCL) Chairman and Managing Director Siva Sankar Lotheti, astatine his bureau successful Tirupati connected Thursday.
“Based connected documentary evidence, RTI records, inspection reports, and acquisition orders, we recovered that tenders and acquisition approvals worthy astir ₹40,000 crore person been manipulated to payment Shirdi Sai Electricals Private Limited (SSE),” erstwhile IPS serviceman and CFL subordinate A.B. Venkateswara Rao said successful the petition.
“A.P. has paid ₹1,19,899 for 25 kVA two-star transformers and ₹1,36,499 for five-star models, portion different States — Telangana (₹87,791), Chhattisgarh (₹75,496), and Uttar Pradesh (₹73,101) — paid acold less. Earlier successful 2017-18, tenders qualified 7 companies, but lone SSE and Toshiba were eligible, with SSE cornering astir 90% of each contracts, including ₹505-crore orders successful DISCOM alone.”
Mr. Venkateswara Rao urged the APSPDCL main to behaviour contiguous forensic audit of each transformer procurements since 2019, and disclose tender documents, acquisition orders, and APERC approvals. He besides requested to suspend and blacklist the suppliers recovered violating tender specifications.
The CFL subordinate sought autarkic method re-testing of randomly selected transformers by national-level labs specified arsenic CPRI oregon ERDA. He further asked for transgression probe into the officials and backstage entities involved, nether the Prevention of Corruption Act, to support the integrity of the State’s powerfulness assemblage and safeguard the nationalist funds.
