Tribune Information Service
Naina Mishra
Chandigarh, September 24
The Finance Division, UT, has clarified that the “foundation” on which the only GMSH-16 chemist was being granted five-yearly extension is “not relevant” to that store.
Based mostly on a notification of the division issued in 2000, the renewal of lease interval was being made on a five-year foundation. The final extension was given to the store for a interval of 5 years, from February 18, 2019, to February 17, 2024.
The case was not too long ago examined by the division and it was intimated that the notification dated March 19, 2000, issued by the finance department, Finance Division, Chandigarh Administration, isn’t relevant to the chemist retailers of the GMSH, Sector 16.
Licenses/leases of some retailers/cubicles/canteen on the GMSH-16 have been prolonged for the previous a few years on the premise of the Finance Division notification dated March 19, 2000. For the reason that notification was not relevant, all such prolonged licences/leases of the retailers/cubicles throughout the campuses of all authorities well being amenities must be examined instantly for required corrective actions, UT Well being Secretary Yashpal Garg has ordered.
Throughout 2014, a CAG audit had objected to the extensions in lease interval, with out going by means of the method of recent bidding.
The Well being Secretary had identified that the extension clause didn’t exist both within the bid paperwork or within the lease deed, however in some way, extensions have been allowed and the identical particular person is continuous with the chemist store for the previous 29 years.
Storage No. 6 on the premises of the GMSH-16 was leased out to Sunil Kumar in 1993 for the aim of operating a chemist store for 2 years, and the lease interval has been prolonged every now and then with sure enhance within the month-to-month rental.
