{"id":486869,"date":"2022-04-26T10:08:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T04:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=486869"},"modified":"2022-04-26T11:27:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T05:57:19","slug":"contractors-body-meets-bommai-flags-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/contractors-body-meets-bommai-flags-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Contractors&#8217; body meets Bommai, flags corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka State Contractors Association petitioned Chief Minister Bommai on Monday and asked him to put an end to the &#8216;package system&#8217; of awarding tenders and take steps to stop corruption, which it said is rampant. <\/p>\n<p>This was the first meeting between Bommai and the contractors after the Association went public with its &#8216;40% commission&#8217; accusation last year by lodging a complaint with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which triggered a political storm.<\/p>\n<p>A delegation led by Association president D Kempanna also urged Bommai to clear pending dues based on seniority. <\/p>\n<p>The memorandum submitted to Bommai said that the &#8216;package system&#8217; of contracts in which several different works are merged into a single package, was designed to benefit contractors from other states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka State Contractors Association petitioned Chief Minister Bommai on Monday and asked him to put an end to the &#8216;package system&#8217; of awarding tenders and take steps to stop corruption, which it said is rampant. This was the first meeting between Bommai and the contractors after the Association went public with its &#8216;40% commission&#8217; accusation last year by lodging a complaint with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which triggered a political storm. A delegation led by Association president D Kempanna also urged Bommai to clear pending dues based on seniority. The memorandum submitted to Bommai said that the &#8216;package system&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}