Dimapur, March 20 (MExN): ACAUT Nagaland today asked the Chief Engineer (Roads & Bridges) not to carry out the executive order to process for tender the beneficiary list of Chief Minister’s Road Development Fund (CMRDF) for 2016-17.
Alleging in a statement that the R&B Minister has instructed to “process for tender” the beneficiary list, ACAUT Media Cell asserted “there can be no tender when there is only one ‘competing firm’ and therefore to direct the Chief Engineer to set-up tendering process is an insult to his own chair.”
According to ACAUT, the Chief Engineer “will be held culpable for abetting corruption if he does carry out the illegal instruction.” Further, he was requested to make a public clarification that “such an illegal order cannot be carried out and the department has no option but to invite open tender bidding.” The statement also reminded the Chief Engineer not to “hang himself in unnecessary legal entangles, including FIR, which will be the case if he carries out the illegal directive of the former CM.”
Further, Chief Minister Shürhozelie Liezietsu was asked to make a public statement denouncing the “illegal order” of his Advisor, Finance.
Meanwhile, ACAUT criticized the former Chief Minister TR Zeliang for allegedly positioning “himself as the CM” even after his resignation and also awarding Rs. 3 crore to M/S Hi-Tech Construction, the highest amount allocated among the 20 beneficiaries under the scheme. The total amount of funds for the CMRDF was Rs 12.50 crore.
