Vigilance Raids Uncover Irregularities in Kaleshwaram Project Documentatio

Karimnagar: The Vigilance and Enforcement departments completed their searches on the offices of the irrigation departments in the erstwhile Warangal and Karimnagar districts of Telangana state on Thursday and seized documents about the Kaleshwaram project.

In Karimnagar, the searches were conducted for two days at the irrigation office near the LMD Colony in Thimmapur mandal under the supervision of Vigilance SP Venkatramana Reddy and DSP Srinivas Rao. They seized important documents, files and hard discs of the Kaleshwaram project.

In erstwhile Warangal, the searches lasted three days at the irrigation divisional office in Mahadevpur mandal of the Jayashankar Bhupalpally district under the supervision of SP Ramesh Chary of the Vigilance and Enforcement department.

The officials seized key documents, records, files and hard discs pertaining to the Medigadda and Annaram barrage and of Kannepalli Laxmi Pump house.

SP Ramesh Chary said the seized files, documents and hard discs were shifted to the main office in Hyderabad.

It is learnt that the vigilance officials admonished the irrigation officials for not producing key files and documents of the barrages constructed under the Kaleshwaram project.

There are allegations against the irrigation officials of the Kaleshwaram project that they had lifted all the important documents as soon as the government changed in Telangana after the recent assembly polls. All the important files, documents and records were kept at the irrigation offices in Bhupalpally district