Kaleshwaram project is India's biggest scam: YS Sharmila
- IndiaGlitz, [Friday,October 07 2022]
YS Sharmila, the President of the YSR Telangana Party, is in the news for demanding a thorough probe into the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project by Central agencies. The Project is the KCR government's flagship one.
On Friday, she described the project as India's biggest scam. I want to say that a large part of the money earmarked for the project was siphoned off. The project has irrigated less than 1 lakh acres of land, Sharmila added. The envisioned acreage was a whopping 18 lakh acres, she iterated.
As someone who describes herself as a proud Hyderabadi, Sharmila said that Telangana is home to her, as her family lives in the State. She also added that the BJP is a right-wing and divisive party with which she can't ally as a secularist.
The Kaleshwaram Project has been described by independent experts and critics as a colossal waste of money. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently said that the project was grounded without preparing a detailed project report, resulting in cost escalations from Rs 40,000 Cr to Rs 1.40 lakh Cr.