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Stating that determination is large-scale corruption successful the functioning of the Kalyana Karnataka Region Development Board (KKRDB), members of the AHINDA Chintakara Vedike and the Kalyana Karnataka 371(J) Constitutional Amendment Agitation Committee took retired a bull procession arsenic a symbolic protestation successful Kalaburagi connected Tuesday.
The protesters marched from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Chowk to the KKRDB bureau building, raising slogans against the State authorities and accusing it of turning a unsighted oculus to irregularities successful the implementation of improvement works successful the region.
As portion of the protest, they garlanded the bull and took retired a procession, symbolically highlighting what they termed arsenic “blind approval” of corrupt practices.
Vedike president Saibanna Jamadar said that bills amounting to astir ₹5,300 crore person been cleared since 2023 for works sanctioned nether the grants allocated to the Board. He said that bills person been cleared without conducting mandatory inspections, prime assessments oregon carnal verification of completed works.
He added that payments person been released adjacent successful cases wherever works either stay incomplete oregon person not been executed connected the ground.
Mr. Jamadar besides said that nary third-party inspection oregon prime audit has been carried retired earlier approving the bills successful gross usurpation of established norms and the Karnataka Transparency successful Public Procurements (KTPP) Act.
He demanded the contiguous suspension of officials liable for clearing specified payments and called for a high-level enquiry into the functioning of the KKRDB.
The protesters warned that if contiguous stern enactment is not taken, the vedike volition intensify its agitation successful the coming days.
