Near-Catastrophe At Madhya Pradesh's Karam Dam Brings Tender Scam In Focus Again
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Karam Dam one of many being probed, BJP has said; wider scam pegged at Rs 3,000 crore; minister says won't spare guilty "even if from our party"
Madhya Pradesh's Karam Dam, at the centre of a near-catastrophe after cracks earlier this week, has been in the headlines for leaks earlier too — of public money, that is. Its part-collapse after heavy rain brings back into focus the e-tendering scam that is being investigated for four years and counting.
The scam took place allegedly during the previous BJP governments. The Congress — which came to power in 2019, only to lose it in 15 months after a BJP-backed mutiny — had listed it among the many "wrongdoings" of Shivraj Singh Chouhan's multiple tenures.
NDTV reported in 2018 about the tampering of the online system, at which the then BJP government ordered a probe ahead of the assembly polls. But a police case was registered only a year later, under the Congress's Kamal Nath-led government. He pegged the losses at Rs 3,000 crore.
It could be higher. The system has been in place since 2014, which means the scam's shadow runs over scores of tenders for nearly Rs 3 lakh crore.
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