The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB), which had conducted raids on the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) last week, said it has found large-scale irregularities from fixing Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) to sanctioning apartments on lake land and generating bills amounting to crores to beneficiaries.
ACB officials estimate that ₹300 crore has not been collected by BBMP towards advertisement revenue alone. A total of 33 BBMP offices had been raided by 200 ACB officers. “Civic officials concerned have not collected advertisement taxes from bus stands and skywalks and also from the newly constructed bus stop under the PPP (public private partnership) model,” said ACB officials.
Town planning section officials allegedly committed large scale irregularities in fixing Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) and created fake records to claim TDR. In many instances, they sanctioned excess TDRs for many projects . “Officials also created fake documents to claim the compensation for the road widening projects. Even the internal vigilance section headed by engineer has not acted on the report submitted to him about the irregularities,” said the ACB.
