NEW DELHI: The feasibility of 1,000 low-floor buses by Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) was placed on hold after a query set up by lieutenant governor Anil Baijal following Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Vijender Gupta alleged irregularities in the procedure.
The transportation department has requested DTC to stay in abeyance the procurement procedure and their yearly maintenance contract (AMC) till further orders.
Gupta had composed to the LG to a question, saying that at January 2021, Delhi authorities had put a job order for 1,000 low-floor buses costing Rs 890 croreout of which the arrangement for 700 buses had been granted to a manufacturer.
He stated that as well as the buy order, the tender for AMC was handed to the identical supplier.
Gupta had stated that the AMC arrangement was fixed at Rs 350 crore each year along with the contract for upkeep could come into effect over the very first afternoon of their buy despite a three-year guarantee period.
“This means that maintenance of these buses could cost the taxpayer almost Rs 1,000 crore inside the warranty period,” he had alleged.
“BJP has whined to the LG, that has put up a question on their own criticism.
We’ve stopped the practice of buses before the record on the question committee comes.
BJP ought to get its evaluation completed, we’re prepared to explore in every single way,” transportation ministry Kailash Gahlot stated.
“The facts will come out before everybody in the investigation.
BJP leaders have checked 400 documents, and they discovered nothing.
The Kejriwal authorities has become easily the most honest authorities in the nation,” Gahlot stated.
Gupta said the resistance had raised the dilemma of fiscal misconduct from the bus contract into the anti-corruption agency (ACB) at March 2021, that required immediate note.
“A petition was sent to Delhi authorities allowing ACB to start looking into the charges.
Nevertheless, this too, Delhi authorities attempted to interrupt the process by sitting about the document,” he alleged.
He said that a three-member truth finding committee was constituted from the LG to check the whole issue.