₹150 crore claim, two suspensions, no public record
A report says Telangana ordered an inquiry into alleged construction-worker insurance irregularities. The documents that would establish the size and status of the case remain unpublished.
The reported claim is large; the public record is not.
A report published on September 1 says Telangana’s Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board ordered an inquiry into alleged irregularities in insurance claims, after earlier reports. It says the Warangal-region inquiry led to the suspension of two officials and that a further inquiry was assigned to Chandrasekhar, Joint Commissioner (Administration), at the Labour Department headquarters. The reported inquiry was limited to Peddapalli and Mancherial.
The same report puts the alleged wider scam at more than ₹150 crore and says the earlier inquiry found irregularities exceeding ₹10 crore. It also alleges that cases were not registered, money was not recovered and insurance brokers acted with officials. Those claims have not been independently established in the research available. No inquiry report, suspension order, FIR, recovery record, contract document or official response from the Labour Department or Welfare Board was located.
The state portal confirms that the Welfare Board exists and is funded through a 1% construction cess to provide benefits, including insurance, to registered workers. It does not publish details of this case. For now, the ₹150-crore figure is a reported allegation, not an official finding. The paperwork is apparently still on leave.