The State government has swung into action without wasting much time for inquiring into the alleged irregularities in the execution of Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) following the caving-in of some piers of the Medigadda Barrage of the project and other damages such as seepage and cracks noticed in the two upstream barrages — Annaram and Sundilla.
Several teams of officials of the Vigilance and Enforcement department raided the offices of the Irrigation department from Engineer-in-Chief (ENC) to Executive Engineer (EE) level at about 10 locations on Tuesday. According to highly placed sources, the V&E teams conducted searches in KLIP offices at Mahadevpur, Karimnagar, Warangal, Ramagundam and Hyderabad.
According to highly-placed sources, the teams had seized files, documents and hard disks of computers so that they could not be tampered with. The focus of searches was to find out irregularities both in the technical (engineering) and financial aspects. The documents of projects works from the pre-bid stage were taken for investigation.
