RTI has revealed that four people have been paid more than Rs 4 crore in four years in the name of consultants for the coimbatore Smart City project.
Chief minister MK stalin had said that the previous regime had committed a lot of corruption and malpractices in the Smart City project. He also said that a commission of inquiry would be set up to look into the corruption and malpractices of the previous regime.
In this situation, in the name of consultants for the coimbatore Smart City project, four people have been paid more than four crore rupees in four years.
In coimbatore, 73 projects worth Rs 1,142 crore 20 lakh have been approved under the Smart City scheme and 56 works worth Rs 322.62 crore have been completed so far.
When the project was launched, some of the consultants were appointed on behalf of the corporation. Following the change of government, the corporation's advisers were fired last August.
Loganathan, a lawyer in coimbatore under the Right to Information Act, has obtained various information regarding who are the consultants for the project and the pay given to them.
Accordingly, only four retired persons working in various fields, including the tamil Nadu Drinking Water Drainage Board, have been appointed in 2018 in the four posts of Chairman, Urban Architect, Procurement and contract Specialist, and Transport Specialist.
In all, these four consultants alone have been paid over four crore rupees in four years, out of the Smart City fund.
Many of the purgatory workers were not made permanent but were paid on a contract basis at slave prices.
But in the name of advisers under the previous regime, crores of rupees have been spent on salaries of those appointed by the then ruling party and officials.
When a plan is prepared, it is customary to hand it over to consultants and design it. But even when the project is launched and the work is not done, why spend so much on consultants?
Questions have been raised as to whether these payments went to them in full. Meanwhile, chief minister MK stalin has said that a commission of inquiry will be set up to look into the corruption and malpractices of the previous regime.
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