0% work, 80% bill: how corruption in infra contracts works in bengaluru
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For example, in Nanjappa Garden area in north Bengaluru, in ward number 73, an estimated cost for improvement of 9th main road, 10th main road and surrounding cross roads at Rs. 1,95,99,826
(Rs 1.9 crore) was granted. “The said work was entrusted to KRIDL which has carried out substandard work to the extent of 30% and submitted a bill for Rs 1,70,53,540 (Rs 1.7 crore),” the
report said. Bills are cleared after engineers of the BBMP conduct an inspection, and this suggests they might be getting kickbacks from contractors in order to submit false reports.