Yet another fraudulent biometric attendance scheme has been busted by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s vigilance team. In order to circumvent biometric attendance, sanitary workers used synthetic fingerprints.
EVDM (Enforcement, Vigilance, and Disaster Management) began its investigation into the attendance tracker that showed sanitary workers were not attending to their duties but were marked present.
A biometric attendance system using Aadhaar was introduced in 2017 by the GHMC in various residential areas within the municipality.
As the EVDM team caught the Goshamahal Circle Sanitary Supervisor Venkatreddy red-handed, he used a synthetic fingerprint to mark his attendance without going into the field. According to police, 21 synthetic fingerprints have been confiscated from sanitation field assistants.
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Stop the construction of illegal buildings on Padmalaya Studios’ land
A petition has been sent to Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar to halt the ongoing construction at the erstwhile Padmalaya Studios and hand over the case to the Director-General of Vigilance and Enforcement so that officials can be put on trial for allowing multi-storied constructions on land alienated from the studio for the development of the film industry at a ‘throw away’ price.
Internal communication to the Chief Secretary was released to the media in which Fegg secretary P. Padmanabha Reddy stated that Padmlaya Studios were allocated 9.518 acres in Survey No. 403 in Shaikpet village at a price of Rs.8,500 an acre when the official price was Rs.20 lakh.
Nevertheless, despite being explicitly mentioned in the transfer deed that the allocated land can be reclaimed if the conditions of the alienation are broken, the studio management sold 5.53 acres for commercial purposes to Zee Telefilms. As a result, Phoenix Residences Pvt. acquired the land. According to him, they obtained permission from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) to build commercial buildings.
According to Mr. Reddy, the tahsildar stopped construction on the orders of the Hyderabad Collector, but after some time he resumption the construction, and the complexes emerged. On February 5, 2014, the District Collector wrote to the government to cancel the land alienation to Padmlaya Studios because of violation of the conditions and sent a follow-up letter to the GHMC to revoke the building permissions. In both cases, no action was taken.
According to the government’s report, the Chief Commissioner of Land Administration (CCLA) sent details of the violations made by Padmalaya Studios on May 9, 2015, and requested that action be taken according to law. The government failed to act, he said, even after receiving this report.
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