‘Send officials who failed to utilise SCP-TSP funds to jail’

Chittapur MLA Priyank Kharge said this would end lethargy among officials

Taking serious exception to poor utilisation of funds under the Scheduled Caste Special Component Plan (SCP) and Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP), Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson and Chittapur MLA Priyank Kharge told the State government to send officials responsible for the lapse to jail. “The funds released for development works under SCP and TSP three years ago remain unutilised due to official lethargy. As per the law, funds released under SCP and TSP must be used in the same year. However, officers in Kalaburagi have not even completed the tender process in most cases. The government should take this seriously and send a few errant officers to jail so that others would learn a lesson,” Mr. Priyank said in a KDP meeting held at Mahatma Gandhi Auditorium in Gulbarga University on Wednesday.