According to sources Tamilnadu’s opposition party leader MK stalin, in his latest statement, has raised concerns following reports of IAS officer santhosh Babu, Principal Secretary in the Information technology Department, seeking for voluntary retirement. His statement reads “Why is IAS officer santhosh Babu, who is responsible for the high-speed bandwidth and uninterrupted merger program, worth Rs 2,441 crore applied for VRS? Did the IT department minister put him under pressure? chief minister Palaniswami should provide an immediate explanation”.
Perhaps the IAS officer who was in charge of this project, the cost of which was increased from Rs 1230.90 crore to Rs 2441 crore, going on VRS has raised doubts in the minds of people. Meanwhile santhosh Babu IAS has not issued any clarification, and reports emerged on tuesday with news of his VRS application from sources privy to the development. There was speculation in political circles that the officer had been upset over undue pressure on him from the ruling party to approve a tender.
Earlier a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between tamilnadu State government and the government of india in New delhi on december 26, 2017 for implementation of BharatNet-II in TN. Accordingly a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) called tamil Nadu FibreNet Corporation (TANFINET) was incorporated in tamilnadu for the implementation of BharatNet. Moreover the Integrated wallet PLATFORM' target='_blank' title='digital-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>digital Infrastructure that connects all the corporations, municipalities and town panchayats in the state, enabling the urban citizens avail the services of government departments at their doorsteps through optic fibre is being called TamilNet.
