<p class="title">The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) will investigate the Rs 384-crore scam in BBMP’s solid waste management programme.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Urban Development Department issued an order two years after BBMP commissioner N Manjunath Prasad recommended a CID probe.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Officials had utilised Rs 550 crore in the name of salaries, provident fund and ESI benefits to 6,600 pourakarmikas who existed only on paper. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Till 2016, solid waste management cost Rs 385 crore. When bills went up to Rs 1,066 crore in 2017, BJP city unit spokesperson N R Ramesh wrote to the ACB, which took up the case on June 19. </p>
<p class="title">The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) will investigate the Rs 384-crore scam in BBMP’s solid waste management programme.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Urban Development Department issued an order two years after BBMP commissioner N Manjunath Prasad recommended a CID probe.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Officials had utilised Rs 550 crore in the name of salaries, provident fund and ESI benefits to 6,600 pourakarmikas who existed only on paper. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Till 2016, solid waste management cost Rs 385 crore. When bills went up to Rs 1,066 crore in 2017, BJP city unit spokesperson N R Ramesh wrote to the ACB, which took up the case on June 19. </p>