The Forum for Good Governance (FGG) has requested Chief Secretary A. Santhi Kumari to take steps to prevent squandering of public money and freeze release of funds under the Special Development Fund (SDF) till the Assembly elections.
The FGG expressed concern that hundreds of crores of tax payers’ money is wasted in the name of SDF. “We have a reason to believe that SDF is created keeping in view the impending elections,” FGG president M. Padmanabha Reddy said.
The State government has made a provision of ₹10,000 crore as SDF in the Budget but there were no guidelines regarding allotment of this fund to executing agencies. The Budget release was not need-based or uniform.
