Team Herald
PANJIM: The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) on Tuesday has resolved to hand over the task of developing and installing in place an e-governance framework for the corporation to Imagine Panaji Smart City Development Limited (IPSCDL). The project will also include digitisation of existing records.
However, the CCP has said that once the DPR is ready and the final work order is issued, the installation of the system should be done within three months of time while also adding that IPSCDL would have to submit progress report to the corporation every 15 days. Former Mayor Surendra Furtado said the old DPR which has already been done by one of the consultants should be referred while the new one is prepared to which the council agreed.
“In earlier cases we have handed over the land to the government for construction of waste management plant but till today there is no progress report of the work. So today demand that a condition be put that every 15 days IPSCDL will have to submit the report to CCP,” said Furtado. Councillor Rahul Lotlikar demanded that the e-governance project should be installed at CCP within three months after the work tender is awarded. “We have found out that the installation of the system would not take more than 45 days. So I urge the council to consider my views. This project has been pending for the last many years,” Lotlikar. A proposal to request IPSCDL to design and implement the e-governance project for CCP had gone into stiff opposition at the last ordinary council meeting with the ruling panel refusing to grant permission to Smart City to take up the project.
Some councillors even proposed that CCP should try to implement the e-governance module by floating a request for proposal on its own.
If the last attempt by CCP is anything to go by, it could end up in irregularities in the tender process, as pointed out by the accountant general in the 2014-15 report. “CCP got Rs 19.8 crore under JNNURM for implementation of an e-governance project and we even tendered it, but when the project was tendered we found irregularities in the request for proposal (RFP).” former mayor Surendra Furtado had said
