Updated Dec 12, 2020 | 12:37 IST
Mumbai News: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) halts awarding of a contract to suspect firm; MDD Medical Systems had denied such allegations. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (File photo) | Photo Credit: IANS
Mumbai: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation halts awarding contract to a suspected firm. The firm that Mumbai civic body had shortlisted for a hospital contract had allegedly been blacklisted for two years by a medical institute in Chandigarh in 2019. The municipal corporation has sought details about the firm from the Chandigarh institute.
MDD Medical Systems (India) Pvt Ltd company has been blacklisted by the institute, BMC has asked the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER) institute about the details. The firm has been shortlisted by Mumbai civic body to repair and maintain medical gas pipelines at the HBT Trauma Care Hospital in Jogeshwari this year.
BMC halts awarding of contract to suspect firm, seeks details of its ‘blacklisting’
ByChaitanya MarpakwarChaitanya Marpakwar / Updated: Dec 12, 2020, 06:00 IST
The firm had bid for a contract at the BMC’s hospital in Jogeshwari (Photo by Nilesh Wairkar)
Writes to C’garh institute asking if MDD Medical Systems was blacklisted when it bid for a contract in Mumbai.
Two months after Mumbai Mirror reported that a firm the BMC had shortlisted for a hospital contract had allegedly been blacklisted for two years by a medical institute in Chandigarh in 2019, the civic body has deferred the awarding of the contract and sought details about the firm from the institute.
Standing committee chairman Yashwant Jadhav bags lion’s share of BMC funds
ByChaitanya MarpakwarChaitanya Marpakwar / Updated: Dec 11, 2020, 07:58 IST
Shiv Sena’s
Facing a loss of revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the
BMC cut its budget spending by Rs 2,500 crore and there is a scramble for funds amongst corporators. However, while several corporators have received only a token amount as part of development and corporator’s funds, the
Shiv Sena’s
Standing Committee Chairman Yashwant Jadhav has bagged more funds than all other civic leaders put together, including those from the Sena.
Jadhav, a corporator from
Dadar,
Vishakha Raut, who is the leader of the Sena in the BMC. She has got Rs 9 crore. Mayor