Councillor approaches ED

Jalandhar, October 17

Councillor Rohan Sehgal today approached Enforcement Directorate and gave detailed information on the alleged Rs 274 crore LED project.

In a letter given to the Deputy Director of ED, the councillor has mentioned that a tender of Rs 40 crore was invited by the Municipal Corporation on December 6, 2016. “A single bidder came and the work was given to them. The company PCP international has been using black money,” the complaint reads.

“The tender is actually worth Rs 174 crore, but the project papers have been fraudulently made of Rs 274 crore so as to take special favours from the banks,” it further reads.

Under the LED light project worth Rs 274 crore, as many as 65,000 sodium lamps of streetlights were to be replaced with the LED lights, the Congress councillor of ward number 26 has alleged that the company had been installing substandard lights at double the rates as compared to the infrastructure installed in Ludhiana.

The issue prompted Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu to order a vigilance probe into the alleged scam. — TNS