Mangaluru: Taking a dig at some politicians and officials, senior Congress leader B Janardhan Poojary on Monday again made a scathing attack not just stating that the Yettinahole Project is a scam, but also demanding CID probe into the project.

Addressing a press meet at the district Congress office here, Poojary said that the CM was being misled by a handful of politicians and officials as far as Yettinahole project is concerned.

Poojary who opined that well planned conspiracy was working to de-stabilise the government at the state, said that if the project is implemented then only 0.85 TMC water will be available as against  the projected 24 TMC as the fact is that Yettinahole does not have 24 TMC of water to offer.

Poojary said that as per a report from expert T V Ramachandra and his three-member team from Indian Institute of Science only 9.7 TMC of water is available, out of which 5.8 TMC is being used by the locals and 2.8 TMC flows out, and the only water available is 0.85 TMC.

Poojary lamented that the government was about to spend Rs 13,000 crore for just one TMC of water, which is ironic. He also stated that as against the Karnataka Neeravari Nigam Ltd’s claim in its affidavt to the the National Green Tribunal that 13 hectares of forest land would be destroyed, the fact is that 1,000 hectares of land is required for this project.

Poojary also pointed a norm that global tender must be called for any project that costs more than Rs 20 crore has been violated in this romping Rs 13,000 crore project and the project has been handed over to Meghana Constructions, of which tainted IAS officer Kapil Mohan is a partner.

(Agencies)