Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has refused to give a clean chit to senior politicians who are accused of taking kickbacks in major projects. Speaking to CNN-IBN's Smitha Nair, he took a strong stand on the issue saying the probe should reach its logical conclusion. ...
03:30 PM, May 01, 2013
Social activist Medha Patkar is alleging fresh evidence in the Maharashtra Irrigation Scam. She has alleged Income Tax raids at the Mahalakshmi Infraprojects Limited uncovered proof of kickbacks being paid to the tune of Rs 44 crore. ...
09:26 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Mumbai: Social activist Medha Patkar has claimed to have fresh evidence in the Maharashtra Irrigation Scam. She has alleged that Income Tax raids at the Mahalakshmi Infraprojects Limited uncovered proof of kickbacks being paid to the tune of Rs 44 crore. The Income tax assessment report cites documents showing unexplained payments made to people represented by acronyms. Patkar has alleged the acronyms refer to top leaders like Deputy Chief Minister...
10:50 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Mumbai: The CAG report on irrigation projects was tabled in the Maharashtra Assembly on Thursday. The CAG slammed the Maharashtra government over incomplete irrigation projects, saying it has led to cost overruns of around Rs 27,000 crore in a finding that could raise questions on the role of NCP and its leader Ajit Pawar. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India, which presented its report for the year ending March...
04:31 PM, Apr 18, 2013
After spending almost Rs 70,000 crore, the government's irrigation plan for Maharashtra seems to reaped no results. CNN-IBN's Smitha Nair travelled to the Nimna Dhudhna irrigation projects site set up in 1979, which is still incomplete despite a 50 time cost jump. ...
10:45 AM, Mar 15, 2013
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Monday agreed to conduct a SIT probe into the irrigation scam in the state. The team will be headed by water expert Madhav Chitale and modalities will be finalised by December 30. The announcement was made by Water Resources Minister Sunil Tatkare in the Assembly. Sources say that the team will probe the irrigation projects from the Shiv Sena-BJP tenure. CNN-IBN had first reported how...
03:06 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar, who had recently resigned as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra over the irrigation scam, will be re-inducted into the state Cabinet on Friday morning. The decision to re-induct Ajit Pawar in the Maharashtra Cabinet has come days after the White Paper on the irrigation scam in the state was tabled. The White Paper on irrigation scam had given a clean chit...
07:20 PM, Dec 06, 2012
Mumbai: Opposition BJP on Monday demanded that former Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and Water Resources Minister Sunil Tatkare be booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act and an SIT probe be launched against them for their alleged role in the irrigation scam. "There is enough proof to show that Tatkare and his predecessor Ajit Pawar were involved in the irregularities. The two NCP strongmen (should) be booked under...
09:34 PM, Dec 03, 2012
Mumbai/Roha: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said the White Paper on irrigation, brought out by the Maharashtra government, was "an attempt to absolve NCP leader Ajit Pawar of all the corruption charges against him". Addressing a well-attended rally at Roha in neighbouring Raigad district, his first public meeting after formation of AAP, Kejriwal said his party will bring out a "black paper" on the irrigation scam in...
11:11 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday said that the White Paper on the irrigation scam in the state has been tabled in the Cabinet. The Maharashtra Chief Minister said that the White Paper gives details of all irrigation projects under the corporations. Chavan further said that the reasons why there were cost overruns in the projects were also listed out in the White Paper on the irrigation scam,...
10:00 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Mumbai: The much awaited white paper on the Irrigation scam will be submitted before the Maharashtra cabinet on Thursday. Sources say the water resources ministry has countered charges of corruption in irrigation projects by listing project-wise reasons for cost overruns and delays. Sources say the ministry has claimed an increase in irrigation potential by 28 per cent in the last decade. The irrigation potential has risen to 47.50 lakh hectares...
08:48 AM, Nov 29, 2012
Mumbai: A white paper on the Maharashtra irrigation scam will be submitted in the state cabinet on Thursday. Sources say the Water Resources Ministry has countered charges of corruption in irrigation projects by listing project wise reasons for cost overruns and delays. This virtually gives a clean chit to former Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar who had resigned in the wake of the allegations of corruption the projects. Sources say...
11:11 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra political class seems to have closed ranks behind BJP President Nitin Gadkari. The latest has been support from Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray, who has said that the corruption charges against Gadkari were the result of a conspiracy hatched by India Against Corruption activists Arvind Kejriwal and Anjali Damania. In an editorial in 'Saamna', Shiv Sena's mouthpiece, Thackeray claimed the charges of land grabbing in Vidarbha were...
11:16 AM, Oct 19, 2012
Mumbai: After NCP chief Sharad Pawar, BJP President Nitin Gadkari also found support from Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray. In an editorial in 'Saamna', Shiv Sena's party magazine, Bal Thackeray has come out in support of BJP leader Nitin Gadkari, just two days after he was charged with corruption by India Against Corruption and Arvind Kejriwal. The editorial says the corruption charges against Gadkari were the result of a conspiracy...
08:21 AM, Oct 19, 2012
Catch today's top stories with CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai. ...
11:57 PM, Oct 18, 2012
Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal rejected the reports of not coming down heavily on BJP President Nitin Gadkari in the Maharashtra irrigation scam. Kejriwal spoke to CNN-IBN's Rupashree Nanda after Wednesday's press conference in which he targetted BJP President Nitin Gadkari. Rupashree Nanda: After the expose on Robert Vadra, today's exposure did not come out with a very concrete evidence of quid pro quo? Arvind Kejriwal: Of course it is there! It...
10:55 PM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has hit back at India Against Corruption member Anjali Damania, releasing a letter written by the activist to the Maharashtra irrigation department. In the June 2011 letter released by BJP, Damania says that the location of a proposed dam coming up in Kondhane-Karjat be shifted by about 500 to 700 metres so that 30 acres of her property would not get submerged. In...
01:19 PM, Oct 18, 2012
Mumbai: The wife of a farmer from Vidarbha, Gajanan Ghadge, named by India Against Corruption while bringing out the revelations against BJP President Nitin Gadkari, has told CNN-IBN that her husband has been missing since the controversy began. Durga, the farmer's wife, said that she is living in fear and does not know whether or not she should file a complaint. "My husband has been missing since that announcement on...
11:34 AM, Oct 18, 2012
Mumbai: Despite allegations by India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal, the BJP has been saying that its President Nitin Gadkari is at no fault. But a CNN-IBN report, too, had found irregularities in an irrigation project in lower Penganga. And interestingly, Gadkari's close aide Ajay Sancheti was in the midst of it. Weeks before Ajit Pawar resigned as Maharashtra's deputy chief minister, he made public his efforts to get national...
08:51 AM, Oct 18, 2012
Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday accused Nitin Gadkari of grabbing farmers' land in collusion with NCP's Ajit Pawar but the BJP quickly dismissed the charges as 'laughable'. ...
11:58 PM, Oct 17, 2012
