{"id":361670,"date":"2020-07-07T11:25:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T05:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=361670"},"modified":"2020-07-07T11:55:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T06:25:54","slug":"pcmc-scraps-tender-for-rs-750-cr-mechanised-road-sweeping-project-after-bjp-corporator-alleges-illegalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pcmc-scraps-tender-for-rs-750-cr-mechanised-road-sweeping-project-after-bjp-corporator-alleges-illegalities\/","title":{"rendered":"PCMC scraps tender for Rs 750-cr mechanised road sweeping project after BJP corporator alleges illegalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calling to redo the proposal due to \u201ctechnical flaws\u201d, the PCMC chief on Monday cancelled the Rs 750-crore tender process for mechanised road sweeping. <\/p>\n<p>A corporator from the ruling BJP, Seema Savale, had alleged illegalities and attempts by top politicians to grab the tender through proxy contractors. <\/p>\n<p>Municipal Commissioner Shravan Hardikar said, \u201cThe tender for mechanised road sweeping has been cancelled. We will redo the proposal and again put it before the civic general body for approval.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The PCMC chief said, \u201cBefore publishing the modified tender, we should have got it ratified by the civic general body, which we did not. When we first placed it at the meeting, we inadvertently put the words, \u2018Request for Proposal (RFP)\u2019, which related to giving minute details of the proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling to redo the proposal due to \u201ctechnical flaws\u201d, the PCMC chief on Monday cancelled the Rs 750-crore tender process for mechanised road sweeping. A corporator from the ruling BJP, Seema Savale, had alleged illegalities and attempts by top politicians to grab the tender through proxy contractors. Municipal Commissioner Shravan Hardikar said, \u201cThe tender for mechanised road sweeping has been cancelled. We will redo the proposal and again put it before the civic general body for approval.\u201d The PCMC chief said, \u201cBefore publishing the modified tender, we should have got it ratified by the civic general body, which we did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361670","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}