AAP alleges Rs-240 cr UPCL scam in tender allocation

Alleging a scam worth Rs 240 crore in the tender allocation process of Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited (UPCL), the Aam Aadmi Party today asked the Vigilance Department to lodge an FIR and initiate a probe into the matter.
In a letter to Additional Director General (Vigilance) Ashok Kumar, AAP state working committee chief Anoop Nautiyal said the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had first cited the irregularities in its audit report for financial year 2013-2014.
Urging the Vigilance Department to lodge an FIR on the basis of the CAG's observations recorded in book no. 199 of its audit report and initiate an inquiry into the scam, he said financial irregularities one after the other have caused irreparable harm to the state's image.

He claimed price bids of two different companies for a tender were opened on two different dates in violation of norms. While for one company, it was opened on January 16, 2014, for another, it was opened on January 18, 2014, he said, claiming it to be a violation of Government Order 177/XXXVII(7)/2008 dated May 1, 2008.
Nautiyal also claimed in e-tendering, opening price bids for a tender on different dates fell into the category of cyber crimes.