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“The probe is to find out the role of power secretary, UJVNL officials and others who facilitated the scam. “The total worth Rs 49 crore was given to the firm without following the rules and till now the ERP system is not working in Uttarakhand” Bhartwal said. The state which is grappling to pay off salaries of its employees should not have gone ahead with such expensive software shopping,” he said.The Samajwadi leader had written to the state government on January 17 highlighting the violation of the procurement rules in finalizing the tender. Dehradun: Acting on the complaint of Samajwadi Party leader and RTI activist, Rakesh Bhartwal, the state government has ordered a probe into the tendering process of the Rs 50 crore Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software scam which came to light in 2016.The software was purchased by the state government for Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited (UJVNL) and there were allegations that the tender was allotted without following due processes to a single firm.Bhartwal told TOI that the CBI is already probing a similar ERP software scam in Air India..