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June 23: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) under the House of Representatives has labled the procurement of the essential medical supplies for treatment of Covid-19 carried out by Omni Business Pvt Ltd as against the Public Procurement Act. PAC made such comments after announcing to probe deeply into the allegation.
According to the committee, there has been widespread misuse of authority while awarding the contract. “In spite of including the department chief in procuring the supplies, involvement of unrelated individuals in the procurement process has been found,” said Bharat Kumar Shah, chairman of PAC, at the begining of the committee’s meeting on Monday.
PAC summoned Narayan Prasad Bidari, secretary of Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Laxman Aryal, secretary of health and Dipendra Man Singh, director general of Health Services Department on Monday to testify regarding the controversies surrounding the procurement of medical supplies from Omni.
On March 25, Ministry of Health formed a committee under the leadership of health ministry advisor Dr Khem Karki to procure medical supplies for coronavirus control and treatment. After Minister for Health Bhanubhakta Dhakal granted a go-ahead for the procurement, the Health Services Department signed formal agreement with Omni Group. PAC has found out that the evaluation committee provisioned as per the Public Procurement Act was given no role in the procurement process.
According to PAC members, the role of minister Dhakal and Dr Karki in this respect are doubtful. “Hurried behavior of high officials including the health minister to give the responsibility of procurement to Omni Group is pointing towards irregularities,” they said.
The alleged involvement of advisor of the ministry has provide a space for irregularity,” said Minendra Rijal, PAC member and parliamentarian from the opposition Nepali Congress party. According to him, the contract was given to someone who was not even in the preliminary discussion. Payment of the supplies was carried out in US dollars even though the agreement was signed for payment in Nepali rupees. “They haven’t answered this question yet,” said Rijal.
However, PMO secretary Bidari claimed that there are no irregularities in the Coronavirus Control and Treatment programme.
Health secretary Laxman Aryal said that he is unaware of the issue as he has just joined the ministry but hoped that truth will soon be discovered regarding the topic matter.
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View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418
include - APP/View/Articles/view.ctp, line 391
View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971
View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933
View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473
Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968
Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200
Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167
[main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
