A day after a committee probing alleged irregularities within the buy of kit and medicines throughout the pandemic really useful prosecution of former CM B S Yediyurappa and former well being minister B Sriramulu, Karnataka IT/BT Minister Priyank Kharge Sunday accused Yediyurappa of prioritising “profiting over our bodies”.
The Justice Michael D’Cunha committee, fashioned by the CM Siddaramaiah-led Congress authorities, had submitted its interim report on August 31. The report mentioned that the committee discovered alleged irregularities within the imports of three lakh PPE kits in 2020 from China, which resulted in an extra fee of Rs 14 crore as transportation value aside from over Rs 1.22 crore of extra fee for the PPE kits.
At a press convention Sunday, Kharge mentioned that the portion of the report — detailing procurement of PPE kits between March and April 2020 — “confirmed that PPE kits had been bought from two Chinese language corporations at inflated costs, even supposing PPE kits had been regionally obtainable at decrease costs.”
“Direct procurement orders had been issued by Yediyurappa and Sriramulu for 2 corporations — Huge Prescription drugs (1 lakh kits) and DHB World Hong Kong (2 lakh kits) — at Rs 2,117 per unit, which included transportation value from Hong Kong to Bengaluru,” he mentioned, including that on March 14, 2020, the Karnataka State Medical Provides Company Ltd had procured PPE kits regionally at `333.4 per unit.
