Lucknow Industrial Development Authority floated a tender (for namesake) for the preparation of a masterplan and gave it to a company in Meerut called Tech Mech International, who has no experience in doing this kind of work. They have been awarded the work because of their ‘links’, ‘political’ and otherwise.
Now Tech Mech invited us for discussions and for outsourcing the GIS part. Mainly the creation of a base map using high resolution satellite imagery. They have no idea of the how’s and why’s of the work. We explained the process and methodology to them in great detail and we reached the stage of discussing the prices. In a day or two, Mr. Ankit who was representing Tech Mech travelled to Lucknow to meet the client and came back after outsourcing the work to some other company in Gorakhpur. And the take on the issue was that there was ‘political pressure’ on them to give the work to that particular company.
I mean this is bullshit. First a company who does not deserve to get the job gets it. Then it is pressurized to again give away part of the job to a yet again undeserving company. I mean one wrong sparking off a series of wrongs. Spoke to the CEO of LIDA, Mr. Vaarshney and he has expressed his incapability of doing anything. And these are the ‘men’ in ‘power’. Awesome.
And those who are deserving stay in the background because they do not have the necessary ‘links’ or ‘liasioning’ as it is called.
What would ’success’ in such a system mean?
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