This is another case of dirty nexus between officials of WCD and contractors.As per media reports a company whom this contract was awarded was closed since last many years and was actually in business of school benches and pipes.
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Even then this closed unit
participated in tender process started by industry department. Nobody in
industry department took pains to ask about companies credentials because they
were hand in gloves with scammers. Interestingly this non existing company was
successful in bagging plastic mat Rate contract. And then Aladdin's in Maharashtra mantralaya produced a magic plastic carpet in a factory that doesn't exist .
On Saturday 7 the February 2015
industry department sent a letter to Bhawani industries , jintur parbhani 500
km away from Mumbai to sign a rate contract. (Anne -44 ) 8th was Sunday. On 9th on behalf
on behalf this non existent company somebody gave confirmation to sign rate
contract. On 11 February Rate contract for plastic mats was signed. On
12th it gave proposal to purchase Plastic mats to commissioner WCD ( Anne -45 ). On 13
February commissioner WCD wrote a letter principle secretary to purchase
plastic mats worth 1,80,62, 244. Same day minister approved proposal to purchase
mats worth (Anne -46)
Earlier tenders were invited by
industry department for plastic mats
from Manufacturers only for fixing Annual Rate Contract (Anne 47) later through a corrigendum words “ authorized distributors” was
inserted. ( Anne -43 ). In this case as all the procedure was started after
money was allocated to WCD.
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