By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, April 21: The State government on Monday submitted to the APHigh Court that InfotechEnterprises Limited had been making false allegations against it on award of contracts for conducting aerial survey of land in the state.The government submitted a counter affidavit pursuant to a notice from theHigh Court.
The Court issuednotice to the government on a petition filed by the Infotech challenging the award of the contract to a company to conduct aerial survey of lands through Integrated Land InformationSystem titled "Bhu Bharathi" which was launched by the state government with the objective of finding a solution to land disputes in the state.
Mr VK Agarwal, Commissioner, Survey, Settlement and Land Records, told the court that the government approached the Survey of India to give the list of agencies, which had the capacity to undertake the aerial photography and the Survey of India has given the list of 11 agencies and letters were sent to them to produce flying permission of the director general, Civil Aviation, for aerial flying at the time of filing requestfor proposal (RFP).
He said the date of submission of the flying clearance certificate also extended at the request of the petitioner.The petitioner alleged that commercial bids were to be opened on March 19 but were opened on March 20 and the authorities asked them to produce flying permission of the director-general, Civil Aviation, for aerialflying.
The petitioners said none of the participants possessed the clearance from the Civil Aviation Authority and it cannot be obtained at such a short notice. The petitioner urged the court to stay all further proceedings in "Bhu Bharathi Scheme".
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