Director of Mines and Geology V.G. Venkata Reddy has strongly denied the allegation made by the TDP that massive irregularities took place in sand mining tenders and said it was politically motivated.
He stated in a press release that the changes in package reserve prices were due to their redistribution in the districts and maintained that the tender process was transparent as it was handled by MSTC, a central government agency.
He said the charge that the reserve price has been reduced was meaningless since the price fixed for three packages in 2021 was ₹1,510 crore, which was revised upward to ₹1,529 crore in the latest tenders.
