Amidst Safe City Project controversy, IPS officers Roopa and Hemant Nimbalkar transferred
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IPS officers Hemant Nimbalkar and D. Roopa, who have been at loggerheads trading allegations over the Safe City Project tender, have been transferred.
According to a State government notification on Thursday, Mr. Nimbalkar, Inspector General of Police and Additional Commissioner of Police (Administration), Bengaluru, has been transferred as Inspector General of Police, Internal Security Division, Bengaluru. Ms. Roopa, Inspector General of Police and Secretary to government, Home Department, has been appointed as Managing Director, Karnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd., Bengaluru.
As the public spat between the two officers blew into a raging controversy over the last few days, sources in the State government had hinted that their transfer out of their present posts was likely to avoid further controversies and ensure that the Safe C
Kamal Pant takes charge as Bengaluru Police Commissioner
Karnataka s Home Secretary D Roopa has been making the headlines lately as she s been at the forefront of the raging controversy around the Safe City Project for Bengaluru. In this context, Roopa, IPS, had been engaged in a war of words with Himanth Nimbalkar, another senior IPS officer who is the Additional Commissioner of Police (Administration), Bengaluru and chief of the tendering committee for the project. But the upright IPS officer became the victim of bureaucracy for highlighting a possible scam.
On Thursday, D Roopa was transferred from her current post as the Managing Director of Karnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation, Bengaluru. Reacting to the state government s decision, the IPS officer questioned the lack of disciplinary action with respect to the potential scam and Safe City Project.
Safe City Project dogged by delays and a fresh controversy
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The proposal was made by the police in 2013
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The proposal was made by the police in 2013
Eight years after the chilling gang rape in New Delhi that spurred a slew of measures for women’s safety, including the Nirbhaya Fund for women safety in metro cities, by the then UPA-II government, Bengaluru is still struggling to implement the measures.
The proposal for the Safe City Project, which has been in the thick of a controversy of late, was made by the police in 2013. But it was approved by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs only in 2018. The State government, which will share 40% of the ₹667 crore project cost, took another year to approve the same and finalised it in October 2019. Since then, twice tenders have been cancelled and the third one is under way, but is at risk of being derailed.
Tender row casts shadow on ‘Nirbhaya Safe City Project’ in Bengaluru
Controversy erupted after Nimbalkar, also the chairperson of the authority vested with the power to invite tenders for the project, wrote to the chief secretary alleging that a woman officer had “impersonated as the home secretary” to seek classified information from a participating company. Updated: December 28, 2020 8:09:50 am
Hemant Nimbalkar, the chairperson of the tender inviting/scrutiny authority for the Bengaluru Safe City Project addresses the media in Bengaluru (Express photo)
The continuing blame game between two Karnataka IPS officers has delayed government action on the tendering process for the ‘Nirbhaya Safe City’ Bengaluru project, which is worth in excess of Rs 600 crore.
Committee members rebut Karnataka officer’s allegations
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No accusation till date that tender proposal was drafted with bias: Nimbalkar
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No accusation till date that tender proposal was drafted with bias: Nimbalkar
Claims and allegations made by D. Roopa, Secretary - PCAS, Home Department, who is in the dock over alleged unauthorised intervention in the ₹619 crore Safe City Project tender, were met with strong rebuttals from members of the Chief Secretary-led State Level Apex Committee monitoring the tender.
The State government has instituted a probe by Bengaluru Police Commissioner Kamal Pant over the call Ms. Roopa made to the Project Consultant allegedly requesting a copy of the classified Request for Proposal (RFP) before its publication.