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Top UP officials tamper with computer systems to manipulate e-tenders
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SME Times News Bureau | 24 Jun, 2019
Government computer systems were allegedly tampered with by top
officials in Uttar Pradesh to manipulate e-tenders of the state-owned UP
State Warehousing Corporation (UPSWC) in a bid to oblige 'favourable'
companies.
The e-tender racket, initially discovered at the
corporation's Moradabad regional office, spread across the state,
including to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency of Varanasi. It
raised questions over the Yogi Adityanath government's claim of
transparent governance.
In an attempt to salvage its reputation,
the government subsequently launched a state-wide crackdown on corrupt
officials and suspended Alok Singh, Managing Director of the UPSWC, and
his close aide Sanjeev Kumar, a Regional Manager-level officer.
Over a dozen other officials are now under the scanner of a high-level committee, set up to enquire into the e-tenders racket.
On
June 4, IANS had reported another scam emerging out of the state-owned
warehouse in Kanpur where government officials forged receipts to siphon
off funds for purchase of seeds to the tune of Rs 16.56 crore.
Top
sources in the state government revealed to IANS that Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath was seriously concerned about the unabated corruption in
the state which has continued for over two decades. The Samajwadi Party
or the Bahujan Samaj Party were in power in the state during that
period.
"On instructions of Yogiji, a crackdown on
government-owned corporations has been launched. Most of the scams in
these corporations has their roots in the previous governments,
primarily the one ruled by BSP supremo Mayawati," said a Secretary-level
IAS officer.
Adityanath will soon take a tour of the state to
review the law and order situation and make surprise visits to thanas
(police stations), tehsils (revenue sub-divisions) and hospitals which,
of late, have become dens of corruption.
The action against
corrupt officials in the UPSWC is also part of the UP Chief Minister's
drive against a large number of unscrupulous officials involved in
skimming government schemes and projects. Sources said that in a
departmental enquiry of UPSWC, it was found that officials tampered with
the computer system to manipulate e-tenders. Among them were
transportation and handling contracts.
"To favour certain
parties, the terms and conditions of the contracts were changed after
the bids were placed online. Besides, the officials at a later stage,
also changed the rates and fudged other data to favour certain players,"
a source revealed.
After a probe at Moradabad, similar manipulations were found in the Azamgarh and Varanasi region.
The
UPSWC was established by the UP government in late 1950s to help
millions of farmers and government agencies in storage, sale and
purchase of agricultural yields, seeds and farm equipment. At present it
has over 156 large warehouses located across the state.
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