L&T Got Medigadda Certificate Based on Non-existent Record

Hyderabad: More and more skeletons are tumbling out of the BRS-era irrigation department in the ongoing investigation by the Vigilance and Enforcement (V&E) wing that have raised serious questions on the legality of the completion certificate issued to L&T which built the now-stricken Medigadda barrage of the Kaleshwaram project. According to sources in the government, the irrigation department has changed its story over the issue of the certificate to L&T and the records on which the decision was taken.

Home Astroguide South Nation World Sports Entertainment Gallery Videos Opinion and Editorials Business Technology Education Sunday Chronicle Hyderabad Chronicle In Focus Lifestyle Jobs Special Story Editor Pick Featured Advertisement Home » Nation L&T Got Medigadda Certificate Based on Non-existent Record Nation Balu Pulipaka 2 March 2024 10:31 PM (Update:3 March 2024 1:55 AM) L&T got Medigadda certificate based on non-existent record. (Photo: DC File) Hyderabad: More and more skeletons are tumbling out of the BRS-era irrigation department in the ongoing investigation by the Vigilance and Enforcement (V&E) wing that have raised serious questions on the legality of the completion certificate issued to L&T which built the now-stricken Medigadda barrage of the Kaleshwaram project. According to sources in the government, the irrigation department has changed its story over the issue of the certificate to L&T and the records on which the decision was taken. Also Read – Must Read Stories in Deccan Chronicle Today January 25 Advertisement It first said that the completion certificate was issued on 15.03.2021 based on the Measurement Book AMB No.56/2018, but changed its story when questioned by V&E sleuths that the certificate was based on Measurement Book AMB No 65/2020. A Measurement Book contains details of day wise work taken up and completed. The V&E officials are learnt to have searched in vain for AMB No. 56/2018 in the records only to discover that this book simply did not exist. Following this, the V&E confronted the irrigation department’s executive engineer Ch Tirupati Rao, who had signed the completion certificate issued to L&T, about the missing book, and how the certificate was issued when the very basis for it did not exist.