Civil contractor who wrote to PM Modi on 40 per cent cut in projects booked for criminal breach of trust https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2022/may/15/civil-contractor-who-wrote-to-pm-modi-on-40-cut-in-projects-booked-for-criminal-breach-of-trust-2453904.html The technical assistant of village Vishnu Kumar Naik was supposed to supervise the quality of work, Mohan said in his complaint.
Yerriswami's Vijayalakshmi Enterprises was assigned to supply material for the solid waste disposal unit in Mustur village under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The technical assistant of village Vishnu Kumar Naik was supposed to supervise the quality of work, Mohan said in his complaint. However, sometime in between, Yerriswami allegedly made some payment to Naik through phonePe which, according to Mohan, was a criminal breach of trust.
(there is no whistle blower protection in India. The UPA was planning one in 2013, thanks to effort by the Advisory Council..)
Yerriswami had gone to the media on May 3 against the officials demanding money and told them that he has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi complaining against the officials for asking him to pay 40 per cent commission on the public works he had carried out.
According to him, he had supplied materials worth Rs 15 lakh and he had received Rs 4.8 lakh till date while the rest had not been paid.
On April 12, a civil contractor from Belagavi district - Santosh K Patil - allegedly died by suicide in a hotel in Udupi, accusing Eshwarappa of demanding 40 per cent commission on a civil work in his village last year.