Mukesh Tandon
Tribune News Service
Panipat, September 3
The Panipat Municipal Corporation (MC) allegedly made unverified payments of Rs 36.46 crore to a solid waste management firm. A sum of Rs 16 crore was released despite a House resolution in July 2019 to rescind the contract over the firm's "poor functioning", as per the information gathered by Samalkha-based RTI activist PP Kapoor.
Panipat Mayor Avneet Kaur said it was "shameful" that the file of the resolution had gone missing.
The MC failed to set up a project management unit (PMU), which was mandatory as per the tender agreement with JBM Environment Management. Bills were to be verified by the PMU before payment. Haryana had in 2017 signed the agreement with JBM as part of a solid waste management project in the Sonepat cluster. Panipat MC paid JBM Rs 36.46 crore for lifting garbage (February 2018-July 2020) and Sonepat MC Rs 2.11 crore (March 2018 - June 2020). "The MCs cleared the bills without verification," alleged Kapoor. JBM's Rajender Singh had claimed credit for Panipat's 160th cleanliness ranking this year.
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