After the popular campaign of road expansion of kathmandu valley, Prime minister Baburam Bhattrai has brought new campaign "Kathmandu Valley Cleanliness Campaign". When the deadline of drafting the constitution is coming nearer, the Prime Minister is involved in designing and implementing such campaign.
According to news published by Nagariknews.com, there has been corruption in the buying of masks, gloves and other materials used for the cleanliness campaign. The Kathmandu Metropolitan city had proposed the budget of 2 crores for the campaign. They said that due to the emergent order from PM, they had no time to order a tender. So, they had to buy materials directly from the market. The amount paid is actually three times to six times expensive than the market retail rate.
Gloves ,masks and pamphlets
Nagarik daily had collected the samples from the places like New Baneshwor(Friday), Chabahil(saturday) and Baluwatar(Sunday) and has observed price.
The gloves which are widely available in Medial firms and Pharmacy are upto six times cheaper than price of gloves used in campaign. । Every items are of normal quality according to nagarik daily. The gloves that KMC gives to the persons joining the campaign costs Rs. 5 per unit. According to Kedar Bahadur Adhikari, KMC has bought it in Rs. 29.50. Up to Sunday, 30,000 gloves have been bought already.
Even masks are bought 30,000 units at Rs. 12 per unit which actually costs Rs. 4 in retail market.
The Pamphlets used for awareness of campaign are also five times costly.KMC has said that per unit printing cost is Rs. 1.50 which is 5 times greater that the ongoing market rate. One of the authority of KMC said " We had proposal of same on 40 paisa." Printing business houses say that this kind of pamphlets does not cost more that 30 paisa. The price is lowered if the order quantity is more.
Not only these, there have been more corruption in other items as well.
There is the blaming game even in the KMC. The purchasing department says that this is illegal act. One of the Purchasing Authority Dhurba Kafle says that the purchasing has been made without informing them. He said " If law is to be followed, then we should have tender if amount of purchase exceeds 1.5 lakhs. We do not know from where the budget came and how purchase has been made." He said that no urgency can breach the policy and procedures. The department has already shown their disagreement with Head of KMC stating that there has been breaching of law and order.
According to news published by Nagariknews.com, there has been corruption in the buying of masks, gloves and other materials used for the cleanliness campaign. The Kathmandu Metropolitan city had proposed the budget of 2 crores for the campaign. They said that due to the emergent order from PM, they had no time to order a tender. So, they had to buy materials directly from the market. The amount paid is actually three times to six times expensive than the market retail rate.
Gloves ,masks and pamphlets
Nagarik daily had collected the samples from the places like New Baneshwor(Friday), Chabahil(saturday) and Baluwatar(Sunday) and has observed price.
The gloves which are widely available in Medial firms and Pharmacy are upto six times cheaper than price of gloves used in campaign. । Every items are of normal quality according to nagarik daily. The gloves that KMC gives to the persons joining the campaign costs Rs. 5 per unit. According to Kedar Bahadur Adhikari, KMC has bought it in Rs. 29.50. Up to Sunday, 30,000 gloves have been bought already.
Even masks are bought 30,000 units at Rs. 12 per unit which actually costs Rs. 4 in retail market.
The Pamphlets used for awareness of campaign are also five times costly.KMC has said that per unit printing cost is Rs. 1.50 which is 5 times greater that the ongoing market rate. One of the authority of KMC said " We had proposal of same on 40 paisa." Printing business houses say that this kind of pamphlets does not cost more that 30 paisa. The price is lowered if the order quantity is more.
Not only these, there have been more corruption in other items as well.
There is the blaming game even in the KMC. The purchasing department says that this is illegal act. One of the Purchasing Authority Dhurba Kafle says that the purchasing has been made without informing them. He said " If law is to be followed, then we should have tender if amount of purchase exceeds 1.5 lakhs. We do not know from where the budget came and how purchase has been made." He said that no urgency can breach the policy and procedures. The department has already shown their disagreement with Head of KMC stating that there has been breaching of law and order.
For more information and to read the full news in Nepali, follow the link:
http://nagariknews.com/news-highlights/139-highlights/39091-2012-04-09-03-05-27.html
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