{"id":279213,"date":"2026-03-09T01:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=279213"},"modified":"2026-03-09T01:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:33:41","slug":"ansu-demands-fresh-tender-departmental-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/ansu-demands-fresh-tender-departmental-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"ANSU demands fresh tender, departmental inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 8 Mar:<\/strong> Alleging violation of the Arunachal Pradesh District Based Entrepreneurs &amp; Professionals (Incentive, Development and Promotional) Act, 2015 in the tendering process, the All Nyishi Students&#8217; Union (ANSU) has demanded immediate cancellation of Tender No CEUD\/PLG-542\/2024-2025\/01 &amp; 02 for providing and supplying basic furniture and equipment for 50 golden jubilee model schools in the state (in Packages A and B), with an estimated fund of over Rs 44 crore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ANSU in a representation submitted to the urban affairs minister on 3 March said that the union had earlier submitted representations\u00a0 to the chief engineer of the urban affairs department on 9 and 18 February, seeking immediate cancellation of the aforesaid tender. But the CE, the ANSU said, &#8220;remained adamant in refusing to cancel the tender, citing that supply of furniture and equipment is exempted from the provisions of the aforesaid Act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ANSU urged the minister to initiate steps for re-tendering as per the Act, ensuring transparency and adherence to prescribed procurement norms, and to institute a time-bound departmental inquiry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It further sought immediate suspension of Urban Affairs CE Taring Darang and other officials involved, pending inquiry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Copies of the representation were submitted also to the chief secretary and the urban development commissioner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 8 Mar: Alleging violation of the Arunachal Pradesh District Based Entrepreneurs &amp; Professionals (Incentive, Development and Promotional) Act, 2015 in the tendering process, the All Nyishi Students&#8217; Union (ANSU) has demanded immediate cancellation of Tender No CEUD\/PLG-542\/2024-2025\/01 &amp; 02 for providing and supplying basic furniture and equipment for 50 golden jubilee model schools in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-279213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279213","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=279213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279221,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279213\/revisions\/279221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}