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| Kathmandu Thursday April 04, 2002 Chaitra 22, 2058. |
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News report on irregularities
denied
Post Report
KATHMANDU, April 3 : The Department of Education
today called a press meet to refute a news report related to alleged corruption of the
department authorities while hiring consultants for the Basic and Primary Education
Programme (BPEP) -II.
The news report appeared in The Kathmandu Post
on March 29 had alleged financial irregularities while hiring the consultants for the
programme.
The daily had also indicated that the department
was misusing foreign aids in unproductive sectors going beyond the spirit of the project.
At the programme, Director General of the
Department Chuman Singh Basnet made an attempt to justify the deal made under the
guidelines of the IDA but failed to convince the media personnel that there was not any
sign of irregularities.
He indirectly accepted the fact that the
contract for monitoring of the construction sites was made with a company run by the
father of the procurement consultant affiliated with the Department.
Basnet did not like to state anything about
differences in the amount of contracts with four different hired consultant firms for
designing estimate and construction of district education office buildings in ten various
districts.
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