{"id":1959,"date":"2020-12-23T06:27:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T00:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2020-12-23T06:27:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T00:57:15","slug":"how-a-malign-officer-becomes-gm-after-causing-multi-crores-losses-to-the-exchequer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/railsamachar.com\/english\/?p=1959","title":{"rendered":"How a malign officer becomes GM after causing multi-crores losses to the exchequer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anand Prakash became GM even after causing crores of loss to the Railways<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

A General Manager retiring taking crores of commission after issuing tenders worth about 3000 crores, even when all know that the work will not happen anyway, whereas a well known malign officer became a General Manager after multi-crores wastage of public money without any hurdle and whole system and departmental vigilance and other investigating agencies are sleeping, and no one is held responsible. Without transportation of passengers almost from last one year – which is the primary function of Railways – how are all activities going on in the Indian Railways, an example –<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

The dream project of PM Modi to connect capitals of North East states, specially Imphal of Manipur by 2020 is shattered by three most maligned \u00a0NFRailway Officials, these are – 1.<\/strong> ExGM\/Construction\/NFR N. K. Prasad, 2.<\/strong> ExCAO\/Const\/NFR & present GM\/NWR Anand Prakash, 3.<\/strong> ExCE\/Const-7\/NFR A. Saibaba. As a result of their wrong doings,\u00a0project cost which was Rs. 9654 Crores in November, 2016 with 90% progress\u00a0was increased\u00a0to\u00a0Rs.13809 Crores, with indefinite target.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal new line project<\/strong> is under construction by Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) in Manipur state. The construction was started by N. F. Railway in 2007 and it was planned in 2015 to connect the capital Imphal by 2020 under the look east policy of Govt. of India and work was accordingly progressing very well to achieve the target 2020, fixed by the Prime Minister.<\/span><\/p>\n

By April 2016, overall progress of physical work was around 85-90%. Initially total sanctioned detail estimate cost was Rs. 4454 Crores up to March, 2013 and in November, 2016, First Revised Estimate was submitted to Railway Board for Rs. 9654 Crores.<\/span><\/p>\n

Later on in June, 2018, enhanced Revised Estimate of cost Rs. 13809 Crores was submitted to the Railway Board by above named trio officers (by withdrawing the November, 2016 Revised Estimate) with net difference of Rs. 4156 Crores.<\/span><\/p>\n

Letter of A. Saibaba addressed to Director\/ Works\/ Railway Board for revised estimate Cost of Rs. 13809.04 Crores due to additional new items duly approved by N. K. Prasad, GM\/Con\/NFR as Annexure-1<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why such a huge difference in both Revised Estimate<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

In 2017, three senior Higher officers joined as a new incumbent in this project. They were N. K. Prasad as General Manager\/Construction, Anand Prakash as Chief Administrative Officer\/Construction, A. Saibaba as Chief Engineer\/Construction.<\/span><\/p>\n

All three were greedy, unscrupulous and maligned officers. To earn money, they started to play foul games with this project. Main culprit was Anand Prakash, who was the technical head of this project. He first of all\u00a0stopped the all ongoing work, on the first day of his joining.<\/span><\/p>\n

He then changed the earlier\u00a0schemes of Brides & tunnels. He changed 22 nos. earlier minor bridges into long viaducts (Major Bridges) and introduce a few more new tunnels and also approved extension of\u00a0already constructed tunnels.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now he started calling fresh tenders for these works and also\u00a0plans to execute it by doing enormous variation in the existing contract. GM\/Con\/NFR has\u00a0full power to call tenders and approve variations.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this game was being played\u00a0only among these three officers. A.Saibaba proposed, Anand Prakash recommended and\u00a0N. K. Prasad Accepted it.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

By this way they had called fresh tender or sanctioned variations\u00a0to the tune of cost Rs. 2000 Crores and each of them earned illegal money approx. 40 to 50 Crores\u00a0each. Anand Prakash siphoned this money to Canada where his two sons are living, via a\u00a0private company. A. Saibaba opened a consultancy firm in Hyderabad, N. K. Prasad lives in\u00a0NOIDA in a palatial house of more than Rs. 10 Crores.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2019, CM\/Manipur N. Biren Singh<\/strong> reviewed the progress of the project at\u00a0Imphal and all these three officers attended the meeting. CM was very upset about poor\u00a0progress as he saw that in the last two and half year no work was being done in section.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then\u00a0it was revealed that the project is in the tendering and survey stage as these three buggers\u00a0changed the earlier schemes of bridges and tunnels. He directly complained to the Railway\u00a0Minister and then Anand Prakash and A. Saibaba was transferred and new CAO\/Con\u00a0Mohan Lal and new CE\/Con posted in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

CM\/Manipur, N. Biren Singh was the cabinet minister in previous CM, O. Iboby Sigh\u00a0Government in Manipur and during his period he had seen the exponentially fast progress\u00a0of Railway works that is why he caught this fraud and directly complained to Minister of\u00a0Railway Piyush Goyal.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

But in these two and half years of their tenure, they had done substantial damage to\u00a0project and it again reached the planning and tendering stages as it was in 2007. In\u00a0these years they were only doing new tender and sanctioned variations and earning\u00a0money by favouring contractors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus they further delayed the project by minimum 5\u00a0years besides overall cost overrun of the projects which will be many times. And now\u00a0this project can not be opened before 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

They are so obnoxious and foolish that they had planned new viaducts at locations where\u00a0earth works have already been completed and minor bridge casted partly or completely.<\/span><\/p>\n

And at each location of these bridges, the Railway had already spent about Rs. 10 to 20\u00a0Crores, and it took 5-6 years to complete these works.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result of their wrong doings,\u00a0project cost which was Rs. 9654 Crores in November, 2016 with 90% progress was increased to\u00a0Rs.13809 Crores, with indefinite target.<\/span><\/p>\n

In planning of 22 nos. new viaducts they mischievously hide the cost of removal of earth\u00a0works already done in these locations and breaking of minor bridges and other concrete\u00a0structures i.e. step boxes, diverted road bridge, big retaining walls constructed at these\u00a0locations in the last 8-10 years and it was not included in revised estimate.<\/span><\/p>\n

At each location\u00a0quantity of removal of Earth works involves is to the tune of 5 to 8 lakh m3 as the cut\u00a0spoils of the adjoin tunnels were dumped in the LONG DEEP Gorge between the two hills.<\/span><\/p>\n

They had no planning of disposal of these huge qty.of earthwork which was about 100\u00a0to 125 lakh m3 in total, in hills areas where disposal of these earthwork would damage\u00a0the ecosystem of hills and pollute river water which is only drinking water source for hill\u00a0peoples and animals.<\/span><\/p>\n

These aspects had also not been taken into account by them. They just want\u00a0to earn money and flew from the project leaving problems for successor officer and having\u00a0no responsibility, and hide these costs in their estimate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anand Prakash<\/strong> is at present General Manager\/North Western Railway\u00a0and posted at Jaipur. He was the man behind this fraud\/Ghotalas. He applied his mind\u00a0how to mislead the whole system and he manipulated the things as per his ulterior\u00a0motives and colour his decision as the most technically correct one as if earlier decisions\/plannings were just a blunder and he is the right person to correct it.<\/span><\/p>\n

This man was\u00a0earlier had worked in N. F. Railway in the capacity of Chief Engineer\/Construction in year\u00a02008-2012 in Lumding-Silchar gauge conversion works. He looted huge money there and\u00a0he had closed nexus with the Guwahati based contractors and he again entered in N. F.\u00a0Railway in year 2017 through the then MOSR(G) with the help of two main agencies\u00a0of Guwahati. At that time he would be GM,\u00a0so he influenced and intimidated every one.<\/span><\/p>\n

He is a habitual offender and a notorious\u00a0looter. He converted the bridge no. 148 between khongsang-Noney section of Jiribam-Imphal new line from minor bridge to major bridge without calling fresh tender whereas\u00a0technical criteria of major bridge is entirely different from minor bridge.\u00a0These works were\u00a0being done by the agency. He helped the agency by doing variation in CA No. CON\/J-T\/2028 dated. 14.08.2015, value increased from 60.0 Crores to 85.0 Crores secretly –<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

1. How he dared to change earlier plannings\/ schemes which were going on since 2007\u00a0without any authentic field investigations \/ expert opinions, he was a bastard man.\u00a0He did it arbitrarily without having any techno economic criteria in his mind and its future\u00a0repercussion. He acted as a lay man.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. It will be pertinent to mention that when he was Chief Engineer in Lumding-Silchar Gauge\u00a0conversion project, he himself took a decision and converted Major Bridges\/ Viaducts in\u00a0Minor RCC bridges on a Techno-economy basis. Copy of his notes taken from relevant files\u00a0is being enclosed as Annexure-2<\/a>. Now how he reverted his own decision in Jiribam-Imphal project where Soil strata are much much better and favourable than Lumding-Silchar line. And it is also ridiculous that in so many instances he had quoted his vast\u00a0experience as Chief Engineer in the Lumding-Silchar project.<\/span><\/p>\n

Higher level incumbency and Inspection from 2008 to 2016, there were incumbencies of\u00a0four Chief Administrative Officer\/Construction and Five General Managers\/Construction and no officer questioned \/\u00a0reverted the\u00a0earlier decisions and work was progressed up to 90% by June, 2016 with the objective to\u00a0connect Imphal by 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Project was frequently inspected by all GMs, Railway Board\u00a0Officials including Additional Member\/Civil, but none of any officer ever questioned the\u00a0plannings\/ scheme of the projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now the question arises whether all these officers were foolish, illiterate and inexperienced\u00a0than Anand Prakash? Why did Anand Prakash do it? This question must be asked from\u00a0him. It is a public money no one should be authorised to waste it arbitrarily.<\/span><\/p>\n

In order to settle the dispute of Minor bridge vs Major bridge, Member Engineering\/Railway Board, New Delhi, constituted a technical committee of Four Members inJanuary 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

The committee had inspected the site physically at each location of\u00a0Minor Bridges and gave its report and the same has been accepted by Railway Board and\u00a0communicated vide its letter no. 2016\/W-I\/NFR\/1st RE\/Jiribam-Imphal dated 20.01.2020\u00a0by Executive Director\/Project Monitoring, Railway Board letter address to CAO\/Const\/NFR\u00a0about acceptance of a technical committee report by Member Engineering \/ Railway Board\u00a0authorising CAO\/Const\/NFR to recast estimates as per earlier plannings. A\u00a0copy of the same is enclosed as Annexure-3<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus the expert committee again corroborated the\u00a0earlier plannings of Minor bridges and other structures.\u00a0Thus NFR Construction again recast the 1st Revised estimate and submitted it to the Railway Board for\u00a0Rs. 12264.15 Crores vide NFR\/Const. letter no. W\/98\/CON\/Jiribam-Imphal\/1st RE, dated\u00a028.02.2020 by CAO\/Con\/NFR Mohan Lal. A copy of the same is enclosed as Annexure-4<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who was the architect of this project?<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Mohan Lal was that very competent officer. He was Ex. Chief Engineer\/Construction & Ex. CAO\/Const\/NFR of this project. He\u00a0was CE\/C about 8 years since 23.09.2008 to 16.07.2016 and he did a foot by foot survey of\u00a0the whole project length and decided each location very judiciously based on techno-economy criteria and all other aspects.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his tenure there were incumbencies of four CAO\/Con (Radheshyam, A. F. Shevare, S. K. Kulshreshtha and Surinder Pal Singh) and Five GMs\/ Construction\/NFR and no officer questioned his decision and work was progressed to 90% up\u00a0to June, 2016 with the objective to connect Imphal by 2020. He was also Chief Bridge Engineer\/ N. F.\u00a0Railway (Open Line).<\/span><\/p>\n

He vide his letter dated. 17.02.2020 to A. Saibaba CE\/Con\/VII\/ NFR,\u00a0sought details and discussion about additional 22 nos. Viaducts\/Major bridges, in order to avoid\u00a0infructuous cost of unnecessary construction and recurrent maintenance.<\/span><\/p>\n

The matter was never\u00a0discussed by Anand Prakash and A. Saibaba with him, as he wrote this letter in the capacity of\u00a0Chief Bridge Engineer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mohan Lal was again posted as CAO\/Con\/NFR of this project in January, 2019 after the transfer\u00a0of Anand Prakash.<\/span><\/p>\n

He immediately stopped all the unproductive, vulnerable and extravagant\u00a0works after his joining. He optimised the cost of the project by technologically and economically\u00a0designing it and by maximum optimising the available resources.<\/span><\/p>\n

He recasted the 1st Revised\u00a0Estimate in accordance with the recommendations of the Technical Committee Report (as\u00a0Annexure-3) for Rs. 12264.15 Crores and saved Rs. 13809 Crores – Rs. 12264 Crores = Rs. 1545 Crores, Copy enclosed as\u00a0Annexure-4<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the direct savings along with time savings otherwise with Anand Prakash\u00a0planning it would\u00a0cost more than 5000 Crores direct cast along with other vulnerability in structures and\u00a0maintenance cost due to highly technical structures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other documents as a proof of above facts and figures –<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

In August, 2019, Railway Board asked for detailed clarification\/ comments on the 1st revised\u00a0estimate submitted by Anand Prakash of Rs. 13809 Crores from Mohan Lal when he was\u00a0Principal Chief Engineer in Eastern Railway.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mohan Lal furnished a detailed reply on each\u00a0additional item covering all aspects how these items are not required and are merely the\u00a0wastage of expenditure.<\/span><\/p>\n

His letter addressed to ED\/Project Management, Railway Board, New Delhi vide Letter no. JTI\/MLBP\/2018, dated 17.08.2018. Copy of the same is\u00a0enclosed as Annexure-5<\/a>, total 9 pages.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please read it patiently then you understand the\u00a0criminal act done by Anand Prakash against the people of Manipur as well as to the\u00a0Nation as a whole.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The dubious Role of Chief Vigilance Officer of NFRailway<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

The role of local vigilance is very hopeless and all vigilance inspectors and senior officers\u00a0especially SDGM\/NFR himself are involved in it. They are quietly influenced by these three\u00a0officers and are being obliged in so many ways.<\/span><\/p>\n

For instance compliance of SDGM\/CVO\/NFR, Maligaon inspection note of Jiribam-Imphal on 30.05.2018 & 31.05.2018, given by A.\u00a0Saibaba CE\/ C\/7\/MLG with false information, manipulations and without facts & figures.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the same was refuted by\u00a0Mohan Lal CAO\/Con\/II\/MLG vide his letter no. CAO\/CON-II\/MLG\/Insp dated 13.02.2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

But NFR vigilance is of such a thick skin and white elephant\u00a0organisation that they had never taken up A. Saibaba for his false clarification and\u00a0misleading. Copy of the letter given by Mohan Lal to SDGM\/CVO\/NFR\/ Maligaon is enclosed as\u00a0Annexure-6<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the criminal offences these three officers did?<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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  1. First they misused their post and position and used their power with ulterior\u00a0motives to earn illegal money. Now it proved that their Integrity is doubtful and they are unbecoming of Govt. Servant.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. They misled the whole railway system and manipulated the project on plea of\u00a0false technical grounds.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. They overruled the decision of all his predecessors from year 2007 to 2016,\u00a0including General Managers & Railway Board\u2019s. In doing so they had never taken\u00a0any approval from any higher authority i.e. Railway Board, they themselves\u00a0proved that all their predecessors Four CAOs & Five GMs were wrong.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. They have introduced highly technical, highly vulnerable, most costly structures i.e.\u00a0viaducts\/ Major Bridges, fresh. Cost of each viaduct is 40-50 lakhs per metre\u00a0and each viaduct would cost RS. 80-100 Crores where as minor bridges at these\u00a0locations cost \/20th to 1\/10th of the cost of viaducts, All minor brides were already\u00a0partly\/fully constructed at much much cheaper cost. Construction of these viaducts\u00a0itself would take 5 years. They delayed the project’s minimum 5 years whereasRailway already invested approx. 9000 Crores in this project and this money is of no\u00a0use.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. In planning of 22 nos. new viaducts they mischievously hide the cost of removal of\u00a0earth works already done in these locations and breaking of minor bridges and\u00a0other concrete structures & other aspects had also not been taken into account by\u00a0them in their estimate otherwise its cost would go to at least 15000 Crores.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Due to their changed plannings, in field at most of the locations (approx. 15 nos.),\u00a0pilings works were started for major bridges and approx. 300 nos. piles of 1200 mm\u00a0dia of depth varying from 30 to 36 m casted in the year of 2018 in the whole section from\u00a0Jiribam to Imphal. These figures can be verified more accurately from the field\u00a0Tenders\/Contracts wise in which these works were executed. Total cost of these\u00a0piling works and other concreting works is approx. 200 Crores. After technical committee recommendations to go ahead with earlier plannings of minor bridges,\u00a0these piling works and other related works done at side for Major Bridges now\u00a0become infructuous and wasted. Thus due decision of these officers, approx. This Rs. 200 Crores had been dumped \/buried in ground and Railway Board and Local Vigilance\u00a0have never bothered to fix responsibility for this fraud.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Thus Manipur, a landlocked state, is further deprived for more than 5 years from\u00a0rail head. Look East vision\/policy of PM Modi also shattered by these three top railway officers in vested interest.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Also this Railway line is of strategic importance for Defence, further delay in its\u00a0completion would threaten the security of the nation as whole.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Now as per present Revised Estimate there is direct savings of approx. 1545 Cr and\u00a0by this money India can send two Chandrayaan Mission.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Finally, It is a total and a clearcut fraud case. This case must be handed over to CBI or any other central agency to\u00a0investigate them. It is a case of “Rashtradroh”. They are the culprit of the people of Manipur as well as\u00a0nation as a whole. PM Modi is requested to please monitor it personally as they have so many their relatives and friends in investigating agencies at higher post, therefore nothing will happen to them if you are giving this\u00a0case in others hands!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Published as received and represented by – Suresh Tripathi<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

    Note: All these three officers can send\/mail their written rejoinder, if they need to justify their decisions, that will also be published (editor@kanafoosi.com or editor@railsamachar.com<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

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