Justice Ghose panel to take up final leg of evidence collection task on KLIP barrages

HYDERABAD The Justice P.C. Ghose Commission of Inquiry probing the alleged irregularities in the planning, design, execution, quality control, operation and maintenance of the three barrages of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project is likely to take up the final leg of its work from Monday to submit its report to the State government by the end of its extended term on February 28. Further, the Commission has summoned several bureaucrats who worked in the Irrigation, Finance and other line departments as also those who volunteered to share information with the panel such as Advisor to the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti Sriram Vedire, Telangana Jana Samithi MLC M. Kodandaram, Telangana Joint Action Committee convenor K. Raghu and others. According to official sources, the Commission is expected to summon elected representatives who held key positions in the Bharat Rashtra Samithi government such as T. Harish Rao and Eatala Rajender, who held the portfolios of Irrigation and Finance, in the final leg of collecting evidence and information. Before finalising its report, the Commission is expected to collect information from former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao too, who, according to the witnesses deposed before it so far, had played a key role in decision making at different levels of the project execution and used to give oral instructions either in person or indirectly — in other forms such as seeking written information.