Uttam: `80 crore scam in pattadar passbooks printing

TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy alleged that the TRS government indulged in a `80 crore scam in the printing of pattadar passbooks.

Speaking to mediapersons on Monday at the Gandhi Bhavan, he said that some printing press companies had come forward to print the passbooks at the rate of `50 each but the state government had given it at a rate of `160 each and in this, there was a `80 crore scam.

Mr Uttam Kumar Reddy said that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had said in the Assembly that the passbooks will have 26 kinds of special marks such as waterproof, tamper proof and others but nothing is there in the passbooks now. He alleged that the CM had lied in the Assembly.

The TPCC president said the state government had decided to give the printing of 72 lakh passbooks to the Central government’s Security Printing Press located at Mint Compound and the General Manager of security printing Ramakanth Deekshit had attended all the meetings conducted by the state government too.

He said that the state government had also decided to print Kakatiya arch, Charminar and farmers’ photos on the pass books. Then suddenly the state government cancelled the tender and gave the printing of passbooks to Manipal Technologies, Madras Security Printing and Sreenidhi Companies.

The TPCC president alleged that the state government had given the work of printing passbooks to those in the blacklist such as Madras and Sreenidhi Companies.