Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao hurriedly announced an anti-corruption hotline for people on which they can report corruption in Government machinery. Whatever may be the intention behind this hotline, there is a flood of complaints giving an impression that the new state is plagued with corruption disease from top to bottom.
In the first four days, the call center received 10,750 calls from different parts of Telangana on various issues of corruption and irregularities in the issuance of pensions, ration cards, housing loans and civil supplies department. The highest number of complaints are from Nalgonda district and Adilabad records the lowest.
The anti graft helpline (040-23454071) was the hotline of Aarogyasri scheme and only takes calls on medicine and health. But up on CM’s announcement, they started taking corruption complaints. With no experience in dealing with such issues and no proper directives from government, the call center staff are totally clueless about what do with the complaints that are placed.
