Published on : Friday, July 12, 2019
The department of tourism had booked 150 sq mt of space at the Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata. However, Goa will now not take part in the Kolkata event.
In the meantime, the department of tourism opened bids Wednesday evening, for selecting agencies from Category A of its empanelled list, to hold tourism fairs at nine other places around the country, including Mumbai, Delhi and Jaipur. The choice for Category B agencies was also done today, for handling various domestic events of the tourism department.
Although the department of tourism has decided to stay away from the Kolkata event, another irregularity has come up about the estimates prepared for nine other tourism fairs, and for which the department has awarded bids to the agencies on July 10.
The Entertainment Society of Goa, the department of information and publicity, and the department of art and culture have separate committees comprising experts from respective fields, to evaluate and select such creative designs.
Most of the times, the estimates related to tenders of the department of tourism are cleared without their evaluation by the designers, planners and architects, especially when designs are involved in the same.
These ambiguous estimates of the department of tourism get approval from the finance department, which has now invited the personal intervention of Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, who holds the finance portfolio.