BRS demands multiple-agency probe into residential schools’ procurement

HYDERABAD

The financial irregularities in the procurement processes of government-run residential schools is to the tune of ₹3,000 crore and not just ₹687 crore as assumed earlier, general secretary of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) R.S. Praveen Kumar alleged.

Ministers Adluri Laxman Kumar and Md. Azharuddin had no knowledge about numbers of various items procured through tenders for the residential schools, Mr. Praveen Kumar said addressing a press conference here on Saturday. “I am speaking with the experience of working as the secretary of the Residential Educational Institutions Society for nine years,” Mr. Praveen Kumar said.

The Revanth Reddy government had chosen the procurement in residential educational institutions as an opportunity to make easy money as nearly half of the students studying in public sector/government educational institutions were enrolled in residential schools by December 2023, when Congress assumed power.

The government had set up norms of high-value solvency certificate and high turnover, eliminating small and medium contractors of Telangana and allowing those from other States to get the contracts, he alleged and demanded that an inquiry by a retired judge be ordered along with SIT probe and vigilance raids on material contracts in residential schools.