Congress has charged of utensil scam in Chhattisgarh
State Industrial Development Corporation (CSIDC). “The CSIDC has put aside all
the norms and given utensil supply order worth crores without conducting
quality test of the samples. The CSIDC has not even considered it important to
acquire information of the manufacturer units from where the utensils would be
supplied,” alleged state president of PCC’s business cell Kanhaiyya Agrawal on
Thursday.
“Even when we sought detailed information regarding
tendering process of utensil supply through Right to Information (RTI) Act, the
CSIDC provided use the information of year 2010 instead of 2012,” Agrawal said.
Notably, the bid for utensil supply was invited
recently. The CSIDC had set high norms for utensil quality. The utensils are
meant for Tribal Welfare Department and Women and Child Development Department.
“Since, these two departments do not have quality test
departments, the quality of the utensils is supposed to be tested by the CSIDC
but it is trying to shirk this responsibility,” he said.
“The corporation also shortlists authorised suppliers
whom the two departments give orders. “However, the corporation strangely
relaxed the norms for some suppliers who did not submit the samples of the
utensils along with the tenders,” he said.
“While finalising the tenders, the CSIDC did not even
ensured whether the specific companies had their own manufacturing units or
not. This is an indicative of huge scam,” he said.
“The government fund is meant to purchase quality
utensils for the poor tribal children but due to nexus of suppliers with
departmental minister officials, ‘supply and rate fixation’ procedures have
been twisted to provide benefit to selected few,” he said.
Agrawal warned that Congress business cell would
complain about the utensil supply scam to Governor and Lokayukta if the
relevant tendering process would be cancelled.
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