Second report of Nagamohan Das Commission focuses on Smart City Project works in Bengaluru; finds significant irregularities

Over ₹3,500 crore value of works carried out between 2019–20 and 2022–23 below the Good Metropolis Mission (SCP) in Bengaluru, when the BJP was in energy, is the principle focus of the second investigation report submitted by Justice H.N. Nagamohan Das to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday. The primary report was submitted in March 2025.

The methodology of the investigation concerned a random number of tasks and spot verification, account verification, and subject verification of those works. The probe uncovered 5 main lapses: procedural irregularities, failure to make statutory deductions in payments, substandard work, billing for work by no means executed, and tender-related irregularities, sources mentioned. 

The 8,900-page report highlighted vital irregularities within the Good Metropolis Mission after inspecting greater than 700 works executed below the initiative, based on a dependable supply within the fee headed by Justice Das.

Officers from the Statistics and Economics Division had been roped in to plot a method for the random number of tasks for inquiry. “They developed a technique that was not arbitrary however primarily based on a well-defined course of of choosing tasks,” a supply mentioned. “After we utilized this method, it recognized round 700 works out of 14,000. The method was designed such that the outcomes from the pattern of 700 would precisely mirror the outcomes of about 90% of the works below the SCP,” he instructed The Hindu.

Different areas that the report targeted on are strong waste administration, lakes, and stormwater drains. Nevertheless, works examined in every of those areas vary between 60 and 100 every.

Throughout the course of, 5 officers, together with a chief engineer, had been issued non-bailable warrants by the courtroom for failing to cooperate with the inquiry. They had been detained by the police and introduced earlier than Justice Das for interrogation.

A number of officers, together with administrative officers, chief engineers and contractors have been named within the report. “We have now advisable that the named officers be given a possibility to elucidate themselves earlier than any motion is initiated,” the supply mentioned.

The report additionally contains 10 suggestions to stop such irregularities sooner or later.