Kavitha urges CM to cancel GHMC monsoon tenders
Hyderabad: BRS MLC and Telangana Jagruthi founder
K Kavitha
on Sunday wrote an open letter to chief minister A Revanth Reddy, urging the latter to cancel the tenders floated for monsoon emergency teams and instant repair teams in the
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation
(GHMC).
She claimed that some officials were trying to favour certain companies in awarding tenders related to emergency works for the monsoon season in Greater Hyderabad. She accused officials in the GHMC engineering department of acting in a manner that discriminates against BC contractors from Telangana.
Kavitha said that regulations have been framed in such a way that only vehicles from a foreign company are utilised for these tasks.
"The said foreign company has only two showrooms in Hyderabad, and the managers at these showrooms are refusing to sign Memorandum of Understanding (MOUs) with contractors from Telangana. Even when Telangana-based contractors manage to obtain MoUs from dealers in Karnataka, officials pressure them to submit physical copies within a short deadline," she said.
She pointed out that, in the past, separate tenders were issued for each of the 150 wards in the GHMC.
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However, tenders are now being consolidated into just nine zones, which, she said, is causing financial losses for local contractors.
BRS MLC noted that the vehicles specified under the new regulations are incapable of transporting even one cubic meter of material, whereas previously used vehicles could carry two to three cubic meters. Kavitha stated that these changes, which benefit a single company and two contract agencies, are imposing an additional burden of Rs 5.85 crore annually.
She urged the chief minister to cancel these tenders immediately and revert to ward-wise tender invitations, which she said would help 150 local contractors.
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