Aatma nirbhar Bharat : Chinese company gets contract for Delhi-Meerut Semi High Speed Rail Corridor amid tension on the border
A Chinese company is going to get the contract for the Delhi-Meerut Semi High Speed Rail Corridor to be built by the Central Government. The Congress has attacked the government on this. Swadeshi Jagran Manch has also demanded that this bid be canceled immediately. A Chinese company has bid the highest amount for the underground stretch of the Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) project.
Even though there is tension on the China border and the indigenous movement for boycott of Chinese goods in the country is in full swing, the dominance of Chinese companies is not diminishing. A Chinese company is going to get the contract for the Delhi-Meerut Semi High Speed Rail Corridor to be built by the Central Government. The Congress has attacked the government on this. Swadeshi Jagran Manch has also demanded that this bid be canceled immediately.
What is the matter
In fact, the biggest bid for making the underground stretch of Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) project has been bid by Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Company Limited (STEC), a Chinese company. At a time when there is an atmosphere against China in the country and talk of boycott of Chinese goods is being done, the opposition has become an attacker after getting this contract of about Rs 1100 crore to the Chinese company.
What did the Swadeshi Jagran Manch say
Not only this, the Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM), associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the mother organization of the BJP, has also demanded the cancellation of this bid from the Narendra Modi government. Swadeshi Jagran Manch, which has been vigorously opposing China, has demanded the government to cancel this contract and give it to an Indian company. The forum said that if the government’s self-sufficient India campaign is to be successful, then Chinese companies should not be given the right to participate in such important projects.
Ashwani Mahajan, national co-convenor of Swadeshi Jagran Manch, has demanded Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari that this contract be canceled immediately. According to sources, SJM wants only Indian companies to have an opportunity to bid in important projects. The forum has also conveyed its point to the ministry.
The thing to note is that these days tensions between India and China in Ladakh are at a peak, in such a situation, many people are raising questions about getting a contract from a Chinese company.
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These companies were included in the bid
In the last bidding on June 12, China’s Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Company Limited became the lowest bidder company. Under this, an underground section of 5.6 km is to be constructed between New Ashok Nagar to Sahibabad in Delhi-Meerut RRTS Corridor. The entire project is being managed by the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC). Five companies had bid for this. Chinese company STEC bid the lowest at Rs 1,126 crore. Indian company Larsen and Toubro (L&T) bid for Rs 1,170 crore. JV of Tata Projects and SKEC, another Indian company, bid for Rs 1,346 crore.
Congress has also become an attacker on this issue. Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala made a lot of tweets and attacked the government fiercely on this issue.
However, sources in the Ministry of Road Transport say that this bid was put up completely through proper process and Indian companies were given equal opportunity.
