{"id":536335,"date":"2022-11-16T09:21:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T03:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=536335"},"modified":"2022-11-16T10:21:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T04:51:52","slug":"morbi-bridge-case-why-contract-given-without-floating-tender-asks-guj-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/morbi-bridge-case-why-contract-given-without-floating-tender-asks-guj-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Morbi bridge case: Why contract given without floating tender, asks Guj HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday heard a suo motu PIL on Morbi bridge tragedy and asked the state government as to how no expression of interest was tendered, and how the &#8220;largesse of the state&#8221; was given to an individual without floating a tender.<\/p>\n<p>The collapse of the British-era suspension bridge on the Machchhu river in Gujarat&#8217;s Morbi district on October 30 claimed 135 lives including women and children<\/p>\n<p>Hearing the suo motu PIL, the high court wanted to know from the state government as to whether a 2008 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and 2022 agreement with the Ajanta Manufacturing Private Ltd (Oreva Group) imposed any conditions regarding fitness certification and if so, who was the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday heard a suo motu PIL on Morbi bridge tragedy and asked the state government as to how no expression of interest was tendered, and how the &#8220;largesse of the state&#8221; was given to an individual without floating a tender. The collapse of the British-era suspension bridge on the Machchhu river in Gujarat&#8217;s Morbi district on October 30 claimed 135 lives including women and children Hearing the suo motu PIL, the high court wanted to know from the state government as to whether a 2008 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and 2022 agreement with the Ajanta [&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":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536335","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=536335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}