Summary:
Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) assistant commissioner of Laxmi Nagar zone, Suwarna Dakhane, has issued show cause notices to deputy engineer RV Mule and junior engineer Krishna Kolhe in the Rahate Colony cement concrete road case. NMC Laxmi Nagar Zone engineers had constructed the road on land owned by a private person, without any administrative approval or tendering process. These works are also allowed to be executed by inviting only quotations from private contractors, without going through the tendering process. Also, Laxmi Nagar zone chairman Prakash Bhoyar has stayed the process to pay the private contractor for the works done before administrative approval and tendering process.TOI had, on February 17, exposed irregularities in construction of a cement concrete road at Rahate Colony. The 10 zones are permitted to propose works worth Rs6.50 crore per annum under zonal funds.Corporators and engineers at the zones are executing works of cement concrete road, interlocking tiles etc under ward and zonal funds, though these are not emergency works..