![]() Despite being at the 10th spot, Shivalik Telecom was allotted work to the tune of Rs 64.59 crore, which was more than what the top bidder - Jindal Traders, Barnala - got (Rs 41.69 crore). The original terms and conditions made it mandatory for the bidding companies to have an “experience of manufacture or supply or execution of electrical works or power development works whose annual turnover pertaining to these activities for each of the last three financial years is not less than Rs 30 crore or total turnover pertaining to these activities is not less than Rs 100 crore during the past four financial years”.Ĭuriously a month later, a tailor-made fresh tender was floated and opened on September 22, 2009, which relaxed the crucial conditions - the turnover amount reduced from Rs 30 crore to Rs 4 crore, the total turnover reduced from Rs 100 crore to Rs 8 crore and the tenure reduced from four financial years to two.ĭocuments show that in the second tender, a total of 11 companies were allotted work since Shivalik Telecom appeared at the 10th position. Sources said the first bid of the tender was withdrawn a month after it was floated allegedly because Shivalik Telecom Limited did not fulfil the financial conditions, which were then lowered to suit the Kairons’ company. On August 28, 2009, the board opened a tender for the work for Rs 479.30 crore. In 2009, the PSEB invited a tender for the supply of material, its erection, testing and commissioning along with dismantling of existent material connected with the conversion of low transmission lines to 11KV lines and installing new transformers on a turn-key basis for all high-loss agricultural feeders under the High Voltage Distribution System (HVDS) scheme in Punjab. Sources say in one specific case, the tendering process was allegedly bent to suit Shivalik Telecom. While there are no government rules that bar a minister, who is a shareholder or director in a company, from bidding for government contracts, the fact that the Chief Minister held the power portfolio may have resulted in a conflict of interest in some of the cases as the companies in which his son-in-law Adesh Partap Kairon had business interests were bidders for the tenders. Incidentally, the Punjab Chief Minister has since 2007 held the power portfolio, of which the PSPCL (PSEB earlier) is a premier department, in the state. The majority of work had been allotted by Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) and its earlier avatar - the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB). Investigations reveal that in the past five years, the Punjab Government allotted over Rs 400 crore worth of work to companies either owned by the Kairons or run in collaboration with other consortiums. ![]() In Shivalik Electricals, Adesh Partap and Parneet Kaur are shareholders. Both Adesh Partap and Uday Partap are directors in another Kairon company - Shivalik Farm Chemical Limited. Both these have done or are doing business with the state government.Īdesh Partap’s brother Uday Kairon is the CEO of Shivalik Agro Limited, which operates from Kairon’s cinema house Neelam Theatre in Chandigarh. In addition, the Kairon family owns two other companies - Shivalik Agro Chemicals and Shivalik Electric Equipment Company Private Limited. Adesh Partap is also a shareholder in the company. Shivalik Telecom Limited is owned by Adesh Partap’s mother Kusum Kumari and his wife Parneet Kaur, besides Vikram Singh. Parneet Kaur is married to Adesh Partap Singh Kairon, grandson of Punjab’s former Chief Minister Partap Singh Kairon and Food and Civil Supplies Minister in the Badal government. While Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s daughter Parneet Kaur is not visible on the state’s political scene, her company Shivalik Telecom Limited is among the beneficiaries of the works allotted in the state’s power sector. While doing so, there is evidence to suggest Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s extended family allegedly benefited as the second in the series of The Tribune’s investigative report reveals ![]() Badal govt’s ‘power’ boost for Kairon companiesĪ major thrust area of the SAD-BJP regime has been to make Punjab surplus in power.
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