Friday, 07 October 2022 | PNS / Dehradun
The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) has eliminated Excel and Akanksha companies from the race of the agencies to run the solid waste management and recycling plant at Sheeshambada after finding irregularities during the inspection. The corporation will float the tender again within two days to select an agency for the operation of the solid waste management and recycling plant. The corporation was considering a Mumbai based agency Excel which is presently working managing sanitation projects in cities like Varanasi and a Delhi based agency Akanksha which is presently working under the Municipal Corporation of Haridwar (MCH) as candidates to run the plant on the basis of the e-tender floated last month. The chief municipal health officer Dr Avinash Khanna said that after verifying the documents presented by the agencies in tender, the MCD constituted a committee of engineers and other experts to conduct physical inspection of the work sites of the agencies which was indicated as their work experience in the documents. The committee conducted the inspection but did not find the work satisfactory at the site as mentioned by the Akanksha company in documents. He said that the company had mentioned in the documents of having experience in running a fully operational waste management and recycling plant but the plant is only about 90 per cent operational. Considering this and other factors, MCD did not select it. Since there was no one to compete against Excel to be selected to run the plant as per the tender, the MCD did not choose it either as it would have been against the Uttarakhand Procurement Rules, stated Khanna. He said that the MCD will float a new tender within two days to ensure a fair chance is given to the eligible agencies to run the plant. The whole procedure will take about three weeks and the corporation will possibly select a new company within a month of floating the tender, added Khanna.
