Summary:
The officials of the Local Government Department stated that the committee would check the status of ongoing projects under the Smart City project in Amritsar. The status report of recently allotted tenders of Rs 33 crore by Amritsar Improvement Trust will be scrutinised by the Vidhan Sabha Committee on the Local Government issues. Similarly the committee will also check the status of AIT's recently allotted Rs 70 crore projects through e- tendering. The officials of the MC and AIT have been asked to present all records related to these projects and tenders. According to the information there were reports of fake firms which reportedly succeeded to get work from the MC and AIT by filling tenders..