MNS protests low quality work by RPS Infra

Anjaya Anparthi / TNN / Sep 21, 2016, 09:25 IST

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MNS protests low quality work by RPS Infra

A rally by thousands of British students in protest at tuition fees and youth unemployment had to be abandoned Thursday due to heckles from activists after a march had passed off largely peacefully.

MUMBAI: Controversy related to Mumbai-based RPS Infra Projects Private Ltd has only gotten worse. Activists of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) stopped works at one of the two sites of the company alleging low quality of works on Tuesday.
MNS workers led by city vice-president Prashant Pawar, president of women’s wing Manisha Papadkar and state general secretary Hemant Pawar stalled the works going on between Mahakalkar Hall and Bhende layout at Sakkardara in South Nagpur.

The agitation only ended when the engineers of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) arrived at the site and assured necessary action.
Pawar said NMC issued work orders of two packages under cement concrete road-II project to RPS Infra. “NMC held back work orders of two more packages to RPS Infra after action was taken by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in road works scam. NMC should not issued work orders of two more packages and also terminate work orders of existing two packages immediately. RPS Infra is one of the six private companies involved in road scam in Mumbai. The company will also waste the time and money of NMC and citizens here,” he said.
BMC has banned any more contracts to RPS Infra and also registered an FIR against it at Azad Maidan police station. NMC had issued work orders of package VI and VIII worth Rs27.91 crore to RPS Infra.
Now, a committee has been constituted to decide the fate of two more packages-V worth Rs10.23 crore and VII of Rs14.74 crore to the company.

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Anjaya Anparthi

Anjaya Rajam Anparthi, 33, is a principal correspondent with The Times of India, Nagpur edition and looking after civic beat. He also likes to write stories from power and mining beats. He is a fond lover of city’s environment and highlight stories related to trees, greenery, rivers, lakes, sewage system, water treatment plants, and pollution-level. The issues related to civic amenities takes him to various parts of the city, slum areas, posh localities and meet citizens, social activists, NGOs, corporators and political leaders. Daylong visit to the NMC’s administrative offices makes him easy in learning various planning and developments of the city. He too likes to visit the developmental projects being undertaken under JNNURM Scheme once in a week. Maintaining a good contact with 145 corporators and officials, he like to highlight various issues related to the city spread in over 217 sq.km.

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