Jammu: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday arrested six officials of the Public Works Department (PWD), including an executive engineer, on charges of misusing their official positions to provide undue pecuniary advantage to a contractor for the upgradation of a road in Jammu. Case registered against. ,
The ACB registered a case against executive engineer Bikram Singh, then assistant executive engineer Gurcharan Singh and draftsmen Sundesh Kumar Kotwal, Sumer Singh, Shiv Darshan Singh under sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act for criminal conspiracy to cause loss to the public exchequer. Jamwa and Atul Sharma.
"Based on the complaint an FIR was registered based on the result of verification conducted by the ACB alleging that contractor Avikash Choudhary, in connivance with concerned engineers of PWD Jammu and others, obtained the contract for upgradation of road in Block Marh. " NABARD kept low rates for allotment of the contract, but on the ground all clauses of the tender were violated and the work was not executed, causing loss to the exchequer, an ACB official said.
During investigation it was revealed that Chaudhary had accepted unusually low rates to get the contract such as Rs 4.30 per square meter against the advertised rate of Rs 430 per square meter for bituminous macadam and Rs 60 per kilogram for reinforcement of RCC work. In comparison the rate quoted was Rs 0.50 per kg., He said the contractor did not execute these low rate items, especially bituminous macadam.
Despite this, the officials released the performance security and additional security deposit kept for the unbalanced bid, which was to be released after successful completion of the work, the official said.
The Executive Engineer and Assistant Executive Engineer recommended post-facto approval for additional cost of Rs. 86,88,925 against the original allocation, and the Chief Engineer issued post-facto allocation and approval for additional work already executed, in violation of codal formalities. Did. Said.
The investigation found discrepancies in rates, excess quantities and allocations and violation of agreements.The officials, by abusing their official positions and colluding with the contractor, provided undue economic benefits to him for their own ulterior motives.
The ACB registered a case against executive engineer Bikram Singh, then assistant executive engineer Gurcharan Singh and draftsmen Sundesh Kumar Kotwal, Sumer Singh, Shiv Darshan Singh under sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act for criminal conspiracy to cause loss to the public exchequer. Jamwa and Atul Sharma.
"Based on the complaint an FIR was registered based on the result of verification conducted by the ACB alleging that contractor Avikash Choudhary, in connivance with concerned engineers of PWD Jammu and others, obtained the contract for upgradation of road in Block Marh. " NABARD kept low rates for allotment of the contract, but on the ground all clauses of the tender were violated and the work was not executed, causing loss to the exchequer, an ACB official said.
During investigation it was revealed that Chaudhary had accepted unusually low rates to get the contract such as Rs 4.30 per square meter against the advertised rate of Rs 430 per square meter for bituminous macadam and Rs 60 per kilogram for reinforcement of RCC work. In comparison the rate quoted was Rs 0.50 per kg., He said the contractor did not execute these low rate items, especially bituminous macadam.
Despite this, the officials released the performance security and additional security deposit kept for the unbalanced bid, which was to be released after successful completion of the work, the official said.
The Executive Engineer and Assistant Executive Engineer recommended post-facto approval for additional cost of Rs. 86,88,925 against the original allocation, and the Chief Engineer issued post-facto allocation and approval for additional work already executed, in violation of codal formalities. Did. Said.
The investigation found discrepancies in rates, excess quantities and allocations and violation of agreements.The officials, by abusing their official positions and colluding with the contractor, provided undue economic benefits to him for their own ulterior motives.
