A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition seeking a direction to Comptroller and Auditor General of India to check veracity of the Initial Estimated Concession Value (IEVC) arrived by the State government while signing an agreement with a private company for maintenance of Nehru Outer Ring Road for 30 years has been filed in Telangana High Court.
Gadeela Raghuveer Reddy, who filed the petition, also requested the HC to declare the concessional agreement made by the government with IRB Golconda Expressway Limited on Toll, Operate and Transfer (TOT) basis to maintain NORR as arbitrary and illegal. The petitioner wanted the HC to pass orders to annul the agreement arrived at by the government with the private company.
Mr. Raghuveer Reddy, stating that giving away maintenance of NORR to a private company for a throwaway price, said the action would result in serious loss to Exchequer. He stated in the petition that he had approached the HMDA through Right to Information Act to secure further details of the internal government communication pertaining to the maintenance agreement. However, there was no response from the HMDA till the date of filing the PIL petition, he said.
