Why is BRS not questioning ‘big contracts’ in SCCL: Kavitha

Telangana Jagruthi president K. Kavitha said the focus of the debate between Congress and the BRS in the Singareni coal tenders was being intentionally diverted towards a ‘small contractor’ to shield attempts to award contracts worth nearly ₹25,000 crore to a major contractor.

At a press conference here, she questioned the silence of the BRS leadership on what she described as large-scale and questionable contract allocations. Why is the BRS trying to highlight only Srujan Reddy and why not the bigger contractors. “Why is he (Harish Rao) not taking the big contractor’s name,” she asked.

Ms. Kavitha also revealed that the BRS awarded contracts worth ₹250 crore to Srujan Reddy when it was in power. She pointed out that several Singareni contracts were approved with high excess percentages during the BRS regime unlike what Mr. Harish Rao claimed.

She also criticised the extension of site-visit conditions to overburden (OB) works, alleging that the move was designed to benefit select companies. “Highlighting the present contracts, while ignoring allocations running into tens of thousands of crores, is nothing but an attempt to mislead the public,” she said.

Calling for the immediate scrapping of the Mine Developer and Operator (MDO) system, Ms. Kavitha said it had caused severe financial damage to Singareni. She claimed that the company’s debt had risen from about ₹25,000 crore during the BRS regime to nearly ₹50,000 crore now.