India pouring money down the drain !
Jan 20, 2016
It has been learnt another huge fraud has taken at Ceylon Workers Congress this time selling of 40 TATA City rider Buses donated by government of India to CWC and transferred to a company called Annai Kothai Enterpremier (G. Ltd) formed by on the instructions of General Secretary of CWC and former cabinet Minister Hon. Arumugam Thondaman during Rajapakshe Regime in the name of his grandmother.
On the request of Hon. Arumugam Thondaman whom he met then Indian Prime Minister Hon. Manmohan Singh in the year 2008 was agreed to donate these Buses to CWC to specially transport plantation workers, children to school's in Central and Uva Provinces.
Annai Kothai Enterpremier (G. Ltd) was formed in year 2009 and hilariously Thondaman appointed his daughter Kothai Nachiyar and Vani Sivalingam daughter of Name Sake leader of CWC and close aid of former Minister Basil Rajapakshe whom he lendered rupees 20 million to Muthu Sivalingam during Presidential Elections in 2015 where we highlighted earlier, to this board the other members are R. Yogarajan present Sri Lanka's ambassador to Egypt, Mr. M. Mani Muthu, Mr. Ponniah Sivaraja and Mr. C. Loganathan.
The TATA city rider buses are very popular among Commuters in rural areas specially with school children due to its convenient interior facilities, also these units are specially made for Sri Lankan conditions and easy to maintain.
In the year 2009 april 10th 20 of these buses were handed over to Hon. Arumugam Thondaman at his political residence in Kotagala by then High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka H.E Alok Prasad. Then later on another 20 units of these buses delivered to this company and totally it became 40 units.
However our Lanka News web confirms these non of this Buses are not available with CWC or Annai Kothai Enterpremier (G. Ltd) and it has been sold and certain buses are given on good will basis to certain political person's including provincial Councillor's, Pradeshiya Members and some political supporters of Hon. Arumugam Thondaman.
Also we learnt the persons who using these buses are doing there own business like hiring for weddings, funerals, and specially it was used for the election campaigns as well. Its very sad to note the children of the plantation workers are not in a position to travel to school in their donated buses and no one is to question this unbearable situation where the CWC leaders are really taken the government of India and the High Commission of India in Sri Lanka for a great ride,
rupees 80 million worth of these buses are totally misused and some of the units are abandoned.
The Government of India is the biggest donor not only the Indian Origin Tamils in Sri Lanka, but to all the communities including education, cultural, and infrastructure. However the India's effort to upgrade and assist the indian origin plantation workers livelihood is in disarray since the demise of late leader of the CWC and god father of plantation workers Savumya Moorthi Thondaman and late Periyasami Chandrasekeran leader of the up country People's Front Party.
And await how the present High Commissioner of India H.E Y.K Sinha thwarted another big corruption was to take place with regard to the plantation housing on his timely intervention.
