PANJIM: The State Transport Department is contemplating taking action against M/s Real Mazon India Ltd for haphazard handling of fitting the High Security Registration Plates (HSRP) on vehicles across the State.
“The vendor has violated the contract terms. We are contemplating serious action against the haphazard handling of the entire exercise. It has caused inconvenience to the public,” an official told Herald.
The department on Tuesday began personal hearing proceedings in connection with the show cause notice that had been issued against the vendor last Thursday over problems reported from the RTOs.
The notice sought to know as to why action to the extent of invoking penalty clauses and forfeiting the performance security to the government should not be taken against the company.
“It has been reported by Registering Authorities that the vendor M/s Real Mazon India Ltd has failed miserably in providing services to the extent of fitment of HSRP to vehicles registered in the State prior to March 31, 2019. The Leader of Opposition and Margao MLA (Digambar Kamat) has also in a written complaint to this office pointing out the deficiencies in your services and a lot of public outcry has also been reported through the local print media as well TV channels and the justification to the deficiencies given by officials of your company are unacceptable,” the two page notice issued by Director Rajan Satardekar stated.
Being the lowest bidder, the government had selected Real Mazon for the project and signed an agreement wherein the company furnished performance security of Rs 1 crore in the form of bank guarantee towards the work order.
