High security plates tender cancelled

Apr 19, 2012 |

Hyderabad

The controversial tender process for the High Security Number Plates (NSNP) project in which a fraudulent company, M/s Shimnit Utsch Pvt. Ltd. placed a bid, has been cancelled in response to a rep-ort carried by this newspaper on April 15, 2012. Transport minister Botsa Satyanarayana ordered a high-level inquiry into the tender process earlier this week after the fraudulent company was exposed for being blacklisted in Rajasthan, Goa and Karnataka.

Highly placed sources said that the inquiry committee has found that the entire bidding process was questionable. “The entire tender process in which four companies placed bids for the project has now been called off. A further date will be decided by the state government very soon and a fresh tender process will begin hopefully very soon,” said APSRTC MD B. Prasada Rao.

The fraudulent company, Shimnit Utsch India Private Limited, made the bid for the HSNP project in a consortium with Teric Utsch of Germany. Shimnit is owned by Mr Nitin Shah and is currently facing serious allegations of underhand dealings and concealing of criminal antecedents in securing the contract in Uttar Pradesh. It has also bid for the HSNP project in Allahabad. After irregularities in the bidding process came to light, the Lucknow Bench of the High Court had ordered a CBI probe into the process.

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