IMPHAL, March 17: The FCI regional officials and a contractor presented false data on the distance between Jagiroad to FCI FSD Sangaiporou route in a well organised fashion to siphon off huge amount of money from the government, the Transporter and Driver Council said today.
In the press meet held at the office of the TDC MG Avenue, President Ranjit said the TDC has been suspecting the FCI contractor`™s conductsfor a long time.
Ranjit further said that on May 26, 2014 a tender was called for lifting FCI goods by the FCI GM Assam Region and the tender was rewarded to GB Chowdhury Holding Private Limited Panbazar Guwahati on July 24, 2014.
As per reports the FCI official along with the transport contractor prepared a plot to misappropriate huge amount along the Jagiroad to Sangaoporou route.
Transporter Contractor GB Chawdhury, Basker Hazarika GM Assam Region and former Executive Director Zone Basumatri together changed the FCI MTF (model tender form) of rate quotation to per MT per Km into their own formulation to manipulate the distance of this route for huge gains on ferrying goods, he said.
They claimed distance from Jagiroad to Sangaiporou is 631 Km and charged at the rate of Rs. 5999 per trip.
But an RTI application revealed that there have been atrocious misrepresentations of facts of the distance of the route used by the contractor.
In their reply to the RTI application, they again mentioned that the distance between the two points is 631 km, and justified their rate of Rs. 5999 per trip. They claimed they did not use NH-37 for ferrying their goods and instead ferried the goods by the Jiribam route.
This however was found untrue and the TDC has obtained an official statement from the Jiribam Police Station, in which the Jiribam OC wrote on February 22, 2015 that during the months of June and July 2014, there were no FCI goods loaded vehicles passing through Jiribam, Imphal East district.
Ranjit said the FCI GM Assam region, ex-Executive Director and Contractor GB Chaudhury sent their vehicle only along NH-2 Imphal-Dimapur roiute and not Imphal-Jiribam route.
But the contractor has been pretending he has been using the Imphal-Jirabam route so he could claim a bigger distance travelled and charge more from the Manipur public and government.
Ranjit said the Imphal-Dimapur route is a distance of only 421 Km and through their manipulation they charged for 210 Km more, which amounts to about Rs. 30,000 gain per trips of their trucks.
In this regard the TDC lodged an FIR against the culprits at Lamphel police station on February 27, 2015 under criminal misappropriation the public money.
Unfortunately, the TDC said the Lamphel Police has not taken up the FIR case the culprits as yet. The TDC then took the matter to the Court on March 3, 2015 and court has directed the Lamphel Police to furnish reason for the not taking up the case, Rajit told the press conference.
The Lamphel Police is scheduled to appear before the court on April 9, 2015 said Ranjit said.
He further said that the RTI was filed by T Jibankumar member of TDC.
The TDC demands a thorough investigation on the matter and book the culprit for misappropriating money belonging to the Manipur public.
The involved FCI official and the contractor must reward befitting penalty, Ranjit said.