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Kathmandu Sunday September 02, 2001 Bhadra 17, 2058.
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CIAA
criticized on scrap contract case
Post Report
BIRGUNJ, Sept 1 - Scrap
contractors on Saturday raised serious concerns over the passiveness
of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) in
taking actions on the complaints of a massive irregularities while
awarding scrap contract.
The contractors had
filed a complaint against District Development Committee (DDC) of
Parsa alleging massive irregularities while awarding the scrap
contracts."We had registered our complaints at CIAA in the hope
that it would investigate the corruption cases but the silence that it
is keeping has surprised everyone," said Ananda Karmacharya, one
of the contractors.
The contractors blamed
that Janardan Singh Chhetri, DDC Chairman has an uppermost hand in
pressurizing the CIAA through political clouts to stop the case from
being investigated.
Karmacharya along with
other businessmen had registered the complaint alleging that Parsa DDC
had embezzled at least 12.1 million in the last fiscal year in the
scrap contracts through bribes.
The amount of scrap
contract in the fiscal year 2000/01 was only 4.6 million where
contractors could claim only 50 paisa for the collection and
transportation of each kilo of scrap.
However, in the fiscal
year 2001/02, such charge on scrap has been raised by four folds to
touch Rs 2 per kilo. Despite such huge rise in charge, the total
contract amount has been surged by a dismal 43 per cent.
Refuting the allegation,
Chhetri and his colleague said that they had no knowledge of taking
bribe but awarded the contract strictly under the present rule and
regulations.
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