MARGAO
In an interesting development over the Sonsodo road construction missing file, Margao Municipal Chief Officer Agnelo Fernandes has directed the technical section to reconstruct the file on priority.
The file pertaining to the Sonsodo road construction worth Rs 40 lakh had gone missing at the time of issuing work order to the successful bidder. Tracking of the file via the file management system of the Margao municipal body later revealed that the file was last sent to the office of the Chief Officer.
The Chief Officer, however, pointed out that the file was sent to the chamber of the Municipal Chairperson Lyndon Pereira, a claim vehemently denied by Pereira.
Since the successful bidder has threatened to drag the civic body to the court in the event the municipality floats a fresh tender in respect of the Sonsodo road work, the Chief Officer has issued a memorandum to the technical section to reconstruct the file.
“I do not see any problem in reconstructing the file. Once the file is reconstructed, the civic body will issue the work order to the successful bidder to commence work on the road project”, the Chief Officer said.
Many in the corridors of the Civic body believe that the file went missing after realization dawned that the favourite contractor of the powers that be did not bag the contract after the successful bidder had quoted below the estimated cost.
“Somehow the technical section will have to reconstruct the missing file based on the details, which would be readily available in the data since the tender was an e-tender. If the file is not reconstructed and the tender scrapped, work files will simply go on missing in the future if the favourite contractors of the powers that be do not bag the contract”, remarked an official.
