{"id":293017,"date":"2019-09-21T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=293017"},"modified":"2019-09-21T06:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T06:56:00","slug":"kseb-clarifies-on-charges-regarding-transgrid-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kseb-clarifies-on-charges-regarding-transgrid-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"KSEB clarifies on charges regarding TransGrid projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: KSEB countered the corruption allegation levelled by Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala on the TransGrid power project and said the tenders were floated in a transparent manner. Chennithala had accused KSEB of tampering with tender norms in the KIIFB-funded power project at Kottayam and Kolothunadu. <\/p>\n<p>KSEB said it carried out reverse e-bidding under e-tender to find the bidder with the lowest quote. \u201cThe rates are always higher than estimated cost due to high wages and hurdles associated with the transmission projects. But we have ensured quality of the project by incorporating guarantee clauses up to 84 months in the tender,\u201d said KSEB.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: KSEB countered the corruption allegation levelled by Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala on the TransGrid power project and said the tenders were floated in a transparent manner. Chennithala had accused KSEB of tampering with tender norms in the KIIFB-funded power project at Kottayam and Kolothunadu. KSEB said it carried out reverse e-bidding under e-tender to find the bidder with the lowest quote. \u201cThe rates are always higher than estimated cost due to high wages and hurdles associated with the transmission projects. But we have ensured quality of the project by incorporating guarantee clauses up to 84 months in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}