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Tender process: VMC to introduce e-Procurement

By Our Staff Reporter

VISAKHAPATNAM, MAY 19. Piling up of garbage and continuing of tippers of CMEY groups beyond their contract period drew criticism at the council meeting of the Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation on Wednesday. The contract period for engaging 18 CMEY tippers for clearing and transporting garbage to the dumping yard ended by December 2003 but their engagement continued.

Some corporators not only criticised the way the garbage clearance was being done in spite of spending Rs.1.33 crores on tippers. The Mayor, Rajana Ramani, reacting to the members' concern that there was no check on the number of trips the tippers were making and the quantity of garbage they were clearing, told officials to keep a track on it.

After discussion, the council decided to extend the contract to the existing tippers till the end of the financial year but told officials to take steps that all contracts were reviewed by the council or the Standing Committee at least two or three months before the contract period expired.

The Municipal Commissioner, Navin Mittal, announced that e-Procurement would be introduced in the tender process for the works or purchases costing Rs.1 lakh or above. Any contractor could file his or her tender through this process.

As part of the Godavari water scheme, a tender worth Rs. 8.34 crores filed by the Kirloskars of Pune was finalised for supply and installation of pumps, transformers and other electrical and mechanical gadgets at the Kanithi Balancing Reservoir, and the Narava and Meghadrigedda reservoirs.

The council passed a resolution to rename the road leading to Jashua Nagar in Kancharapalem after the former CPI(M) corporator, Botta Narasinga Rao, who died recently. .

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