High-level panel? Show us the GO
A report says Telangana set up a one-month committee to fix how public works are executed. The government order it supposedly rests on is not on any official page we could find.
The reported committee’s government order has not been found on the state’s public portals.
A report on July 29 said the Telangana government constituted a high-level committee to review how engineering works are conceived, tendered and managed, with a one-month deadline to suggest fixes for delays and cost overruns. It named Vikas Raj as chair and Sikta Patnaik as member‑convenor, and listed departments from Irrigation to Law in the mix. According to that report, the Finance Department issued “G.O. 93” to constitute it.
We could not locate that government order on the state’s own portals — the Government Orders page, Gazette listings or e‑procurement orders — and the text of the GO is not publicly available there. Until the GO is published or traced in the record, the committee’s composition, powers and deadline remain claims from a single report, not verifiable fact.
What is on record: the state has publicly flagged execution bottlenecks — land acquisition and tendering among them — in recent reviews. The Chief Minister’s office, for instance, recorded directions in July to complete land acquisition and move to tenders on Kodangal works. That shows the problem exists; it does not confirm a new committee or its mandate.
If the Congress government in Karnataka were sitting on Telangana’s river clearances we’d say so. Here, the ask is simpler: if the Finance Department issued G.O. 93, put it where citizens can read it. The BJP-led Centre has opinions about state “fiscal discipline”; it can start by applauding a state that publishes its own orders on time. Telangana’s projects run on paper and steel — the paper should be easier.