SHILLONG, Dec 15: KHNAM legislator, Adelbert Nongrum, has targeted the North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) over an e-tendering besides also accusing Vice Chancellor, SK Srivastava, of shielding corrupt officers.
In a statement issued here on Tuesday, Adelbert alleged that the university started the procedure of inviting tenders through e-tendering process in May, 2018, and going by Government of India’s norms, the work order was issued to M/s. ITI limited, by the nodal officer of NEHU.
“In the work order issued by the nodal officer to the ITI, Bengaluru, it is clearly mentioned that ‘One-time Registration charges for vendor/contractor is Rs 2,000.’ Now comes the twist. While signing service contract with ITI on the non-judicial stamp paper, one-time registration charges for vendor is changed to Rs 2,000 per year. As a result, every year a contractor applies for a work, he or she needs to pay fresh registration fee,” he said.
He also claimed that though the tenders were to be hosted by nehu.euniwizard.com as per the signed contract, it was hosted actually at nehu.euniwizarde.com, which belongs to Unibrain Consultancy Services Private Limited at New Delhi and is registered with GoDaddy.com.
“One can clearly now see where registration money paid by contractors is going. Instead of the payment coming through e-collect system to NEHU, the processing fee, instead of being collected by government agency ITI, goes to the account of M/S Unibrain Consultancy Services Private limited, New Delhi. What could be a case worse of blatant manipulation and diversion of earnings of University than this,” he questioned.