Legal wrangle over choice of consultant

Thiruvananthapuram | Monday | 19th March, 2018

Summary:

The Smart City project under the city Corporation has been stuck at the management consultancy selection stage for the past few weeks. A meeting of the Smart City Special Purpose Vehicle held last week decided to entrust the Smart City chairperson to organise a hearing of the company officials. more-inThe State government has accorded sanction for the release of an amount of ?10 crore as State share for Smart City Thiruvananthapuram Ltd for the year 2017-18. The city Corporation had sought a legal opinion from the Law Department on the course of action to be followed. It appeared to be leading the race to be chosen as the consultant after the financial bids were opened in January..