{"id":472205,"date":"2022-03-02T11:06:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T05:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=472205"},"modified":"2022-03-02T12:37:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T07:07:29","slug":"no-tender-no-money-karnataka-govt-rejects-bbmps-emergency-logic-to-bypass-bids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-tender-no-money-karnataka-govt-rejects-bbmps-emergency-logic-to-bypass-bids\/","title":{"rendered":"No tender, no money: Karnataka govt rejects BBMP\u2019s \u2018emergency\u2019 logic to bypass bids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a setback to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the state government has turned down its request to undertake road and drain projects worth Rs 1,171 crore without calling tenders. <\/p>\n<p>The Urban Development Department found that most of the projects were not of an emergency nature as claimed by the civic body. <\/p>\n<p>The BBMP and the state government had come under widespread criticism for the city\u2019s bad roads during the rains in October and November last year. The civic body had cited the flood damage to bypass the tender process under Section 4(A) and (G) of the Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurements Act, which deals with \u201cperiods of natural calamity or emergency declared by the government\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a setback to the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the state government has turned down its request to undertake road and drain projects worth Rs 1,171 crore without calling tenders. The Urban Development Department found that most of the projects were not of an emergency nature as claimed by the civic body. The BBMP and the state government had come under widespread criticism for the city\u2019s bad roads during the rains in October and November last year. The civic body had cited the flood damage to bypass the tender process under Section 4(A) and (G) of the Karnataka Transparency [&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":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472205","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=472205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}