APNU investigating Surendra pumps project

Sep 20, 2014 News

With the Government of Guyana pulling the plug on the Specialty Hospital Project contracted to Surendra Engineering Company Limited, the main Opposition Party, A Partnership for National Unity says they will continue to pay keen attention to other projects the contracting group had taken up in Guyana.
One such project is the 14 drainage pumps which were to be delivered to the Ministry of Agriculture almost two years ago That project has cost taxpayers a whopping US$4M.
According to Opposition Leader David Granger, these projects have cost millions and now the meltdown is public. “We sounded the bell early and this project wasn’t clear from the get go” Granger told Kaieteur News. He said that they are still doing some investigation as it relates to projects contracted to Surendra.
Surendra Engineering has been accused of submitting a fake bank guarantee to Government for the Turkeyen specialty hospital.
That contract was awarded in 2011, shortly before former President Bharrat Jagdeo ended his second term in office.
There have not been any straight answers from the Ministry of Agriculture, and by extension the Administration, whether all the pumps are here. The eight fixed and six mobile pumps are crucial in fighting flooding in especially low-lying farming areas across the coastlands.
Already, the Indian High Commission and the EX-IM Bank have been apprised of the situation.
After the signing of the project back in May 2011, the then Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, reportedly insisted that the bidding process was conducted in keeping with international standards. He said, then, that since the financing was via a line of credit from India, one of the stipulations included allowing Indian companies to also have an opportunity to bid.
Surendra was expected to provide training and technical support.
The engines of the pumps, Persaud had said in May 2011, would have had the capacity to discharge up to 200 cubic meters of water per second. This was significant as the biggest pumps that Guyana had then were 150 cubic meters per second capacity, Persaud explained.

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