{"id":259541,"date":"2025-02-26T01:27:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=259541"},"modified":"2025-02-26T02:15:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:45:43","slug":"ex-mla-alleges-multi-crore-corruption-in-nec-road-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/ex-mla-alleges-multi-crore-corruption-in-nec-road-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-MLA alleges multi-crore corruption in NEC road project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 25 Feb:<\/strong> Former Pakke-Kessang MLATechi Hemu claimed that there has been\u00a0\u00a0 corruption worth crores of rupees in the North Eastern Council (NEC)-funded Pakke-Seijosa-Itakhola road project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing a press conference at the Arunachal Press Club here on Tuesday, Hemu urged the state government to conduct a ground survey on the NEC&#8217;s 60-km Pakke-Seijosa-Itakhola road in Pakke-Kessang district &#8220;to unearth the actual position of the road at present.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hemu said that the concern arose after he received an affidavit from the department concerned, wherein it stated that &#8220;the department does not have DPR documents of 70 km stretch Pakke-Seijosa-Itakhola road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The affidavit was obtained through an RTI application, said the ex-MLA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The sanction letter of the road was issued in the year 2015, and tender was done on 4 December, 2015, and due to some issues, re-tendering of the road was done with a joined binding, and technical sanction was done on 13 March, 2017,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He expressed shock that &#8220;the technical sanction was done only for 62 kms, whereas the full stretch of the road is 70 kms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The construction of the road was handed over to a sub-contractor, with an agreement entered in between the principal contractor, M\/s PRL-Gepong (JV) and M\/s Yumiko Global Infra Tech Pvt Ltd, on 14 June,2021,&#8221; he informed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;As per the terms and conditions of the agreement, it is a back-to-back basis contract agreement, which means the sub-contractor will execute as per the main contract bearing Agreement NoPKD\/NEC\/PSI\/Agmt-03\/2016-17, dated 31\/03\/2017. The second party shall be authorised to open up bank account with Union Bank of India, Itanagar branch,under the power of attorney specifically meant for transaction of bills\/payment pertaining to the project,&#8221; informed Hemu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that &#8220;the first party, M\/s PRL-Gepong (JV) shall be entitled to receive 3% margin amount from M\/s Yumiko for the purpose of executing such increase of contract amount, and the same shall remunerate each payment received from the department, if any work increases beyond agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 25 Feb: Former Pakke-Kessang MLATechi Hemu claimed that there has been\u00a0\u00a0 corruption worth crores of rupees in the North Eastern Council (NEC)-funded Pakke-Seijosa-Itakhola road project. Addressing a press conference at the Arunachal Press Club here on Tuesday, Hemu urged the state government to conduct a ground survey on the NEC&#8217;s 60-km Pakke-Seijosa-Itakhola road in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-259541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}