Chennai (IANS) | The Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the state school education department, while selecting private companies engaged in security services, cleaning and maintenance, to appoint only those people who know Tamil or the local language of the place where the school is located. situated at. A division bench of the Madras High Court, comprising Acting Chief Justice T. Raja and Justice D. Bharat Chakraborty, applied its mind to the tender floating committee concerned, including the norms adopted by other departments while fixing the tender conditions for the work to be done. Instructed to keep everything in mind.
Tamil Nadu School Education Department for the first time has invited tenders for housekeeping, sanitary and security services in all the schools under it. The criteria for bidders is that they should have operated in an area of 25 lakh sq ft with a turnover of Rs 50 crore in the last three years and have 5,000 employees.
Quality Property Management Services Pvt Ltd moved the Madras High Court against this but a single bench dismissed the petition.
When the appeal petition came up before the Bench, the Additional Advocate General, J. Raveendran said that based on the suggestions received during the pre-bid meetings, the terms of the tender have been relaxed – area up to 10 lakh sq ft instead of 25 lakh sq ft, turnover of Rs 30 crore instead of Rs 50 crore And the number of personnel has been increased from 5,000 to 3,000.
The bench refused to accept the explanation given by the AAG and questioned why the tender criteria were diluted. It set aside the order of the single bench and quashed the tender notification.
–IANS
