This refers to ‘Satyam not Sundaram’, December 19, by Leslie D’Monte on Ramalinga Raju and the Satyam episode. There has been a reference to Raju’s social orientation through Byrraju Foundation and EMRI’s 108 ambulance services in five states.
There is a PIL pending in the Supreme Court accusing EMRI of getting these contracts from the state governments through dubious means and that a huge sum of taxpayers’ money has been committed by the state governments to undertake the ambulance services, which are not viable in the long term. Huge tracts of land have also been given to EMRI to maintain the ambulance services. The corporate governance of the group is definitely questionable.
K S Subramanian, via email