The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has determined to revoke the implementation of reverse tendering course of within the actions pertaining to its engineering and procurement departments, following the State authorities’s determination to this impact.
The State authorities had determined to tweak the modalities within the tender-cum-reverse auctioning course of, after ‘sure drawbacks’ have been noticed in its implementation. It was determined to observe the standard tender process for entrustment of works in all departments and in addition restore the earlier on-line e-procurement system, thus disposing of the idea of what has been perceived as ‘bargaining twice’.
The TTD, as a quasi authorities physique, has been adopting the reverse tendering course of since 2019 in its engineering and procurement wings. Nevertheless, with the State’s determination to get rid of the method, the TTD has additionally introduced reversion to the previous system and has communicated the identical to all its stakeholders.
Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) chief P. Naveen Kumar Reddy has welcomed the choice and hoped that it might augur nicely for the TTD within the days to come back.
The TTD’s determination assumes significance amid the continued row over the alleged provide of adulterated ghee for making the ‘Prasadams’. The reverse tendering course of is broadly perceived to go away the provider with a wafer skinny margin, and even pushing him in the direction of incurring loss at occasions. In actual fact, it was the primary angle to come back underneath the scanner after the ghee provide controversy erupted, which was additionally broadly debated within the political circles.
“The system was launched by the erstwhile YSRCP regime with a vested curiosity of freely giving the provision/civil contracts to its males,” Mr. Reddy charged, whereas interesting to the TTD authorities to cancel the contracts that had not but been grounded, so as to lower your expenses to Lord Venkateswara’s exchequer.
Mr. Reddy additionally demanded {that a} state-of-the-art laboratory be established in Tirupati on the earliest to get all of the obligatory exams finished right here to make sure using the suitable elements in ‘Srivari Prasadams’.
Printed – October 06, 2024 04:05 pm IST