HYDERABAD: The State Road Transport Corporation has once again stopped the process of tenders for manufacture of high-security number plates for motor vehicles. According to officials sources, the process has been kept in abeyance for the third time under instructions of from the top.As per the schedule, the financial bids were to be been opened on May 7 but the officials did not take up the work. The file on tenders sent to the chief minister was returned without his approval to transport minister Botcha Satyanarayana. It is cited as one of the reasons for stopping the tenders. It is learnt that transport ministry officials had issued the tender notification in haste without chief minister’s consent.According to officials, the principal secretary (transport) had sent the file to the minister for permission to issue tender notification before April 25. After examining the file, the minister forwarded it to the chief minister for his approval but it was returned to the minister on May 2 without approval. Botcha instructed officials to send the file again to the chief minister and get his approval. The officials, without following the file movement, issued the tender notification on April 25.There is also a rumour doing the rounds that the tender process was stopped to award someone close to a top leader with the contract.When contacted, Botcha Satyanarayana admitted that the file was returned to him from the chief minister’s office and said he instructed his officials to send it again to the CMO but said he was not aware of the tender process being kept in abeyance.
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