Karnataka's Rs 613 Crore Sweeper Machine Deal Sparks Outrage and Allegations of Financial Scam

The Karnataka government wants to rent special cleaning machines for the roads in Bengaluru for seven years.

They approved a deal costing over 613 crore rupees for 46 machines.

Some people, like a government minister and others online, are very upset about this.

They say that buying these machines should cost much, much less, maybe only around 100 crore rupees in total, even with drivers and upkeep.

They think the government is spending way too much money and might be hiding something or wasting public funds.

The government says renting is better than buying right now because buying them all at once would cost a lot of money upfront.

They also mention that the machines will help clean the city's roads.

But the critics are still asking where all that extra money is going and want the deal to be stopped and looked at more closely.