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As galore arsenic 22 Indira Canteens crossed the State person remained unopened for the past six months contempt completion of construction, arsenic section legislators are yet to hole dates for inauguration, Municipal Administration Minister Rahim Khan informed the Legislative Council connected Tuesday.
Replying to BJP subordinate K.S. Naveen, the Minister said the Indira Canteen strategy was a flagship inaugural of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. At present, 346 canteens are operational successful the State, portion 15 are nether construction, helium said.
Have written to MLAs
Although the operation of 22 canteens has been completed, they person not yet been inaugurated due to the fact that section MLAs person not provided their availability, according to the Minister. He said that helium had personally written to them, urging an aboriginal inauguration. He expressed anticipation that the facilities would beryllium opened wrong this month.
Raising the issue, Mr. Naveen questioned the grant of contracts to Excel Precast Solutions Private Limited, stating that the steadfast had been fixed contracts some successful 2017 and again successful 2023 for the 2nd signifier involving 186 canteens, with exemption nether provisions of the Karnataka Transparency successful Public Procurements (KTPP) Act.
He alleged that the institution had since unopen down and said awarding contracts to the aforesaid steadfast doubly nether exemption provisions raised concerns.
Responding, Mr. Khan said the institution had participated successful the bidding process successful 2023 and was executing works nether the 2nd phase.
Based connected eligibility
Intervening, Urban Development Minister Byrathi Suresh defended the decision, saying the declaration had been awarded based connected eligibility, and the subordinate was relying connected unverified information. He said officials could travel the subordinate to the company’s bureau for clarification.
He added that the operation of Indira Canteens required expertise and that contracts had been awarded to qualified agencies accordingly.
