{"id":534145,"date":"2022-11-04T10:17:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T04:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=534145"},"modified":"2022-11-04T11:29:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T05:59:53","slug":"cag-report-bmc-awarded-work-to-contractor-without-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cag-report-bmc-awarded-work-to-contractor-without-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"CAG report: BMC awarded work to contractor without tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to shut down the Gopal Krishna Gokhale Bridge in Andheri for at least two years, a recent report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), prepared in June 2022, has shown that the civic body awarded contract for doing staging works to provide temporary support to the bridge to a contractor in 2019 without going through proper tendering channel and deliberately delaying the process, giving undue advantage to the contractor. <\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the approximate cost of carrying out the staging works was pegged at Rs 4.66 crore and, since the BMC didn\u2019t float any tender for this project,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to shut down the Gopal Krishna Gokhale Bridge in Andheri for at least two years, a recent report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), prepared in June 2022, has shown that the civic body awarded contract for doing staging works to provide temporary support to the bridge to a contractor in 2019 without going through proper tendering channel and deliberately delaying the process, giving undue advantage to the contractor. The report stated that the approximate cost of carrying out the staging works was pegged at Rs 4.66 crore and, since the [&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-534145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534145","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=534145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}