Telangana BJP on Tuesday demanded that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao cancel the contract given to a private firm for the maintenance of the Outer Ring Road (ORR) alleging that it has a questionable history and for offering a revenue which was 50% less for the next 30 years .
Dubbak MLA M. Raghunandan Rao, in the presence of spokespersons Ch. Vittal and N.V. Subash, charged that the tender process had been manipulated to give away the project to the firm which had earlier defaulted on payments for maintenance of the road.
The BJP leader claimed ORR gets an average of ₹1.80 crore a day as revenue from toll tax but awarding the contract to the agency shows that the revenue to be paid to the HMDA/Hyderabad Growth Corridor will be about ₹67 lakh only. Or, the revenues which should have been about ₹700 crore a year is now just ₹246 crore.
