Ukhand govt to make public probe reports of ‘irregularities’

during BJP rule Dehradun, Aug 31 (PTI) Uttarkhand government is mullingmaking public before the state Assembly polls next year thefindings the two commissions formed by it to probe the allegedirregularities during the BJP rule. The S C Tripathi and K L Bhati commissions have submittedtheir reports to the government and Congress has now decidedto discuss the reports in the cabinet meeting so that they canbe made public before the state Assembly elections in 2017. "The state government will soon call a meeting to discussthe reports," reliable sources in Congress told PTI. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of theCongress Coordination Committee held in New Delhi last week. State Congress chief Kishore Upadhyay had recently writtena letter to Chief Minister Harish Rawat demanding action onthe probe reports. Retired IAS officer Bhati had initiated the probe in 2012and had submitted the reports on the alleged irregularities inthe Uttarakhand Seeds and Tarai Development Corporation. Following the resignation of Bhati, the government hadformed the Tripathi Commission which submitted its probereport last year. These commissions were asked to probe allegedirregularities in as many as 56 Hydroelectricity projects’allocations, Mahakumbh Mela and central government maintainedprojects, among others. In the run-up to the 2012 Assembly polls, Congress had inits manifesto promised probing the alleged irregularitiesand taking action against the guilty. PTI CORR CK RTKIS