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Excess amount claimed for drilling 10 borewells

Staff Correspondent

The zilla panchayat has decided to blacklist the agency

DAVANGERE: Charges of collecting excess amounts from the Davangere Zilla Panchayat through “fake bills” by a Honnali borewell drilling machine agency have been proved. It has been found that the agency had collected an excess amount of Rs. 38,259 from the zilla panchayat for drilling 10 borewells in Honnali taluk, said H.B. Manjappa, president of the Davangere Zilla Panchayat.

Investigation

Talking to presspersons here on Tuesday, he said that the zilla panchayat had investigated the matter through the Geology Department and found that the agency had claimed excess amounts in all the 10 borewells that the department examined.

The zilla panchayat has decided to blacklist the agency.

Mr. Manjappa said he was thinking of examining all the borewells that the agency had drilled in the past 10 years.

He said a special grant of Rs. 2 crores had been released to Honnali a year ago under the drought relief programme but since no work was taken up, the Government had withdrawn the amount.The Honnali MLA got the amount sanctioned again.

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