The Congress government in Telangana headed by chief minister A Revanth Reddy has unearthed what it calls one of the biggest administrative scams — an alleged misuse of nearly Rs 18,000 crore of public funds during the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi government headed by K Chandrashekar Rao.

The irregularities, detected during the ongoing verification of government employees under the new Integrated Finance Management and Information System (IFMIS), have revealed a massive network of ghost employees, fake outsourcing contracts, and fictitious wage payments spread across government departments, corporations, universities, and local bodies.

The KCR government had once declared that Telangana would eliminate all forms of contract and outsourcing employment, promising regularization and tran

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