Revanth says cost of construction of martyrs memorial escalated from ₹60 crore to ₹180 crore
The Hindu
Assigning the Telangana Martyrs Memorial construction work to a Andhra contractor shows how insensitive Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has become towards Telangana martyrs while the escalation o
Assigning the Telangana Martyrs Memorial construction work to a Andhra contractor shows how insensitive Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has become towards Telangana martyrs while the escalation of cost from ₹ 60 crore to ₹180 crore reflected how the government squandered away public money, alleged TPCC president A. Revanth Reddy.
Mr. Reddy, who visited the construction site on Tank Bund along with AICC spokesperson Sravan Dasoju, Anil Kumar Yadav and Chamala Kiran Reddy, said despite the escalation of price all that the contractor had done in the last three years was to raise a few concrete pillars.
He said the contract was awarded to Proddutur based Kamishetti Pullaiah Company (KPC) Project Limited that had secured tenders with false certificates. He said GO no. 339 was issued on June 17, 2017 at an estimated cost of ₹80 crore. But the tenders were called only after a year on June 26, 2018. Tanikella Integrated Consultants Pvt. Ltd was hired as consultant with a fee of 6% of total project cost. But the cost of construction had now escalated to ₹180 crore.