Employees of the Delhi Jal Board on Wednesday moved the high court here for a probe into the role of senior DJB officials in awarding a contract at allegedly inflated rates to a firm, causing a huge loss of `170 crores to the state exchequer.
In a petition to the bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, the DJB workers’ union accused officials of giving the contract to multi-tasking engineering firm Larsen and Toubro at exorbitant cost of `271 crores.
The contract was for installing a software, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, to monitor various aspects of water production at the Bhagirathi Water Treatment plant (WTP), said the petition.
The bench has posted the matter for hearing on February 8.
According to the workers, following the recommendation of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the tender was issued to the company in May, 2011, and subsequently a Letter of Intent (LOI) was issued on November 28 at an inflated cost of `271 crores.
The petition said Bhagirathi WTP, located in Gokulpuri area, has been supplying 110 MGD water against its capacity of 100 MGD and there is no requirement for installation of any software to monitor its production.
Despite repeated representations to the board against the decision, no heed was paid to them and the tender was issued at an enhanced rate, the petitioners alleged.
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