SRINAGAR: A Chennai-based firm is in the midst of a row after a media report claimed it was favoured by Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh in allotment of a solar power project in Jammu and Kashmir but the company said the project was approved by the previous Omar Abdullah Government after following due procedures.
BJP, to which Nirmal Singh belongs, also rubbished the allegations against the Deputy CM, saying the project was allotted by the previous Government and the present dispensation had made no changes in it.
A Jammu-based newspaper has alleged that Singh had tried to influence a senior bureaucrat to allot “without tenders” the Photo-voltaic Power Plant project at an estimated cost of Rs 700 crore on 300 acres of land at Chann Arrorian in Kathua district of Jammu region. Singh holds Power portfolio.
In wake of the report, the opposition NC sought a probe while Congress demanded Singh’s resignation.
Adil Khan, who is one of the directors of the firm M/S Then India Energy Private Limited, told reporters here today that the Power Department had “no” role in the project and “it was the previous National Conference (NC)-Congress coalition Government which had actually approved” it. (AGENCIES)
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