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Senior Congress person Ramesh Chennithala connected Friday alleged that crushed is being prepared successful the Kerala’s Cooperation section for a large scam successful transportation with the improvement of a ‘uniform bundle solution’ for 4,415 superior agriculture cooperative recognition nine (PACS) branches successful the State.
Addressing a property league here, Mr. Chennithala said that the archetypal determination to grant the declaration to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for ₹206 crore was cancelled and a caller tender was invited nether mysterious circumstances. The CPI(M)-led LDF authorities is attempting to grant the enactment to Kannur-based Kerala Dinesh Beedi Workers’ Central Cooperative Society Ltd which has quoted ₹58 crore for providing the bundle solution to 280 cooperatives, helium said.
At that rate, equipping each 4,415 cooperative nine branches would outgo astir ₹914 crore, resulting successful a nonaccomplishment of ₹700 crore to the State erstwhile compared to the magnitude quoted by TCS, Mr. Chennithala alleged.
The Cooperation section had issued orders accepting the TCS’s azygous tender for the enactment successful September 2023. The fiscal bid was approved done a authorities bid dated April 2024. Mr. Chennithala’s allegation is that the LDF authorities decided to cancel this tender and successful inviting caller bids, had reframed the conditions successful specified a mode that reputed firms specified arsenic TCS would not beryllium eligible to apply.
Only 2 entities had bid – the Malabar Information Technology Cooperative Society Ltd and the Kerala Dinesh Beedi Workers’ Central Cooperative Society Ltd. The erstwhile had quoted ₹273 crore and the latter, ₹58 crore, for carrying retired the enactment successful 280 PACS branches, according to Mr. Chennithala.
He said it was important that some bidders were from Kannur and controlled by the CPI(M). “Since the Model Code of Conduct for the Assembly predetermination is successful force, the authorities is trying to get the Election Commission of India’s (EC) support for awarding the work. I program to record a ailment with the EC,” Mr. Chennithala said.
He besides added that the Congress-led UDF, if it comes to power, would scrap the tender and bid an probe into the incident.
