A two-day-long inspection drive by officials of the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau has unearthed widespread corruption and irregularities by officials in municipal Corporations across the State.
The drive named Operation Clean Corp which began on Friday was based on complaints about officials bending municipal rules and delaying applications submitted by citizens. The VACB team came across hundreds of applications piling up in the Corporation offices in Kochi, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram, Kannur, Kollam and Thrissur. The officials also identified cases in which building permits and occupancy certificates were issued quickly on applications routed through touts.
The inspection revealed that an Assistant Executive Engineer in the Kollam Corporation had received ₹15,000 in his account from a contractor and another ₹25,000 from an agent through GooglePay.
