Thiruvananthapuram: Former opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala wrote to the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Against the government’s move to cooperate with the Swiss electric vehicle maker Hayes AG.
Chennithala, in his letter, said the government held a meeting with project consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which was blacklisted by the government earlier, leaving the project shrouded in mystery. Keeping in view the corruption, this project is being revived and it is being taken forward by bypassing all the rules and regulations. He alleged that the project was conceived to help a foreign company get out of the way and thereby earn monetary gains.
Chennithala demanded that the government release a copy of the minutes of the meeting chaired by the Chief Minister regarding the project held this week. In his letter, he also asked nine questions to the CM.
Chennithala asked about the procedures followed by the government for selection hes Ag for E-Bus manufacturing. He sought to know who selected PwC as the project consultant and on the basis of what criteria, how the prices of 3,000 buses to be manufactured were decided, how it was decided that the private player would have 51% shares and Govt 49% in JV company and why no global bids were invited for the project.
He also pointed out that the biggest example of irregularities was the representatives of HESS AG who attended the meeting chaired by the Chief Secretary to prepare the Detailed Project Report. The project to build and procure 3,000 electric buses was previously put on hold after allegations of corruption by the opposition towards the end of the previous LDF government, as part of reviving the project, a decision to set up a joint was taken over with HESS, the venture company KSRTC and KAL. A meeting was called by the Chief Minister last week to review the progress of the project.
Last year, when the project was first considered, the government wanted to go ahead despite a state-level task force on the immobility warning that there was actually no real space anywhere in the world to study and adopt e-buses. Model not available. Section.
Chennithala, in his letter, said the government held a meeting with project consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which was blacklisted by the government earlier, leaving the project shrouded in mystery. Keeping in view the corruption, this project is being revived and it is being taken forward by bypassing all the rules and regulations. He alleged that the project was conceived to help a foreign company get out of the way and thereby earn monetary gains.
Chennithala demanded that the government release a copy of the minutes of the meeting chaired by the Chief Minister regarding the project held this week. In his letter, he also asked nine questions to the CM.
Chennithala asked about the procedures followed by the government for selection hes Ag for E-Bus manufacturing. He sought to know who selected PwC as the project consultant and on the basis of what criteria, how the prices of 3,000 buses to be manufactured were decided, how it was decided that the private player would have 51% shares and Govt 49% in JV company and why no global bids were invited for the project.
He also pointed out that the biggest example of irregularities was the representatives of HESS AG who attended the meeting chaired by the Chief Secretary to prepare the Detailed Project Report. The project to build and procure 3,000 electric buses was previously put on hold after allegations of corruption by the opposition towards the end of the previous LDF government, as part of reviving the project, a decision to set up a joint was taken over with HESS, the venture company KSRTC and KAL. A meeting was called by the Chief Minister last week to review the progress of the project.
Last year, when the project was first considered, the government wanted to go ahead despite a state-level task force on the immobility warning that there was actually no real space anywhere in the world to study and adopt e-buses. Model not available. Section.
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