SHILLONG, Sep 30: The Trinamool Congress on Friday demanded a court-monitored impartial probe into the incident of Meeting constructing dome collapse after alleging unlawful connivance among the many NPP-led MDA Authorities, the contractors and the auditor.
Social gathering’s nationwide spokesperson Saket Gokhale stated new details, which emerged, confirmed a transparent try by the federal government to bury your complete situation quietly.
He stated the IIT-Roorkee – the unique approver of the constructing’s design – was not referred to as in for auditing after the dome had collapsed.
Speaking concerning the cause why the federal government selected the IIT-Guwahati for the audit, Gokhale stated, “IIT-Guwahati at present has a 136.86 crore development contract which is being executed by UPRNNL and Badri Rai & Co – the 2 firms which had been working on the new Meeting constructing.”
Stating that the IIT-Guwahati said in its report that the dome had collapsed because of lack of coordination between the designers and the contractors, the Trinamool chief stated, “Regardless of the report, the MDA authorities didn’t take any motion towards the official contractor, Uttar Pradesh Rajkiya Nirman Nigam Ltd, which is liable for the dome’s collapse and for illegally subcontracting work to the disqualified firm Badri Rai & Co.”
He stated the federal government as a substitute determined to permit the identical contractors to repair the collapsed construction at no further price.
“It may be deduced that the GoM appointed IIT-Guwahati as a substitute of IIT – Roorkee to probe the Meeting dome collapse purely to defend the contractors UPRNNL and Badri Rai & Co and to bury the incident quietly with out taking any critical motion towards the 2 contractors,” Gokhale stated.
Stating that the Meghalaya unit of the Trinamool is appalled on the “unlawful connivance” between the MDA authorities and the contractors, he demanded a recent audit on the dome’s collapse both by the IIT-Roorkee or any impartial company. Additional, he demanded that UPRNNL and Badri Rai & Co are instantly blacklisted and penalized, a recent tender for additional development is floated and an “impartial court-monitored probe” towards the MDA authorities and the 2 contractors ordered.
The Trinamool’s state unit stated the dome’s collapse was one more occasion of the federal government’s failure. It’s completely surprising that repeatedly, the MDA authorities is just not solely failing the individuals of Meghalaya but in addition squandering tax-payers’ cash, the get together stated.
It stated when Gokhale challenged the federal government for an open debate in entrance of the media on these problems with alleged corruption and misgovernance, Chief Minister Conrad Okay Sangma, Deputy CM Prestone Tynsong and others made all types of “frivolous excuses” to keep away from the talk as they feared getting uncovered.
“These new details (in addition to previous revelations on varied points) present that there’s entrenched corruption within the MDA authorities together with an unholy nexus with favoured contractors which has drained the general public exchequer of crores of rupees,” the get together stated insisting “the MDA authorities should comply with an open debate with the TMC whether it is honest and has its fingers clear.”
“However, we all know that they are going to proceed to dodge and keep away from this problem due to the thousands and thousands of skeletons of corruption that exist of their closet,” the TMC additional stated.
