Opposition alleges irregularities, graft in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj memorial project
Ahead of Assembly polls in the state, the opposition has alleged corruption and irregularities in the proposed Chhatrapati Shivaji memorial project in the Arabian sea.
It alleged that the Centre Vigilance Commission (CVC) guidelines were blatantly flouted while allotting the tender and changing the specification of the proposed statue.
Maharashtra government had allotted this ambitious project to L&T at Rs 3,800 crore recently with the certain specification such as the structure height 121.2 metres, the height of the statue was 83.2 m metres, while the sword part 38 metre in the original tender documents.