Former Minister of State for City Improvement and City Housing Vinu Moradiya on Tuesday wrote a letter to Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, in search of a vigilance probe towards two senior Surat Municipal Company (SMC) officers for his or her alleged function in placing out a young with an allegedly inflated quantity for a venture meant for provide of tertiary remedy water to multinational firms at Hazira, Surat.
The officers embody metropolis engineer Akshay Pandya and extra metropolis Engineer Ketan Desai.
The Surat Municipal Commissioner has ordered a vigilance inquiry into the whole episode.
SMC provides tertiary remedy water to textile industries in Pandesara, and generates yearly earnings of round Rs 140 crore.
In his letter, seen by The Indian Specific, Moradiya wrote: “In accordance with the SOR (Schedule of Charges) of the federal government, the brand new tertiary remedy plant must be estimated at Rs 900 crore. Earlier than the tender process, the work was put ahead earlier than the municipal commissioner to get consent for the tender process. The estimated value of the venture talked about within the proposal was Rs 1,600 crore.”
The letter additional acknowledged: “SMC commissioner checked and located that the price of the venture is increased than SOR; accountability of the venture lies within the fingers of incharge metropolis engineer Ketan Desai. He was faraway from the put up and given cost of the shop.”
Moradiya, in his letter, additional stated, “Disciplinary actions had been taken towards incharge extra metropolis engineer, however the metropolis engineer (Pandya) can be equally liable for such an act as he had signed on the proposal.”
Moradiya, the present BJP MLA of Katargam, instructed The Indian Specific, “By doing such an act, each the officers are equally liable for the loss which was more likely to be incurred by SMC. We’ve got demanded that the State Vigilance Fee ought to intrude within the incident and perform a probe towards each the officers. Probe also needs to be initiated on their function in different mega tasks of SMC.”
Regardless of repeated makes an attempt, Pandya and Desai couldn’t be contacted for remark.
