The government relies more on private partnership due to non-availability
of adequate funds for development work. This is a welcome move. In fact Indians
could not even dream of getting good roads in a short time of just a few years
or months. However, there is a need to modify this policy. Off late citizens
are complaining about the toll collected by the private party who constructed
highways. Government does neither stop collection nor justifying the collection.
This must stop. Government must make a policy for PPP so that neither of the
parties loose nor suffer monetary loss.
I suggest a simple solution. The
government should call for tenders specifying specifications for work and
method of payment i.e. recovery from citizens using the facility. There should
be more than 1 alternative for period of payment. Willing private partners
should quote value for every time periods specified in the tender. Government
should award contract to the lowest bidder as per existing rules and practice.
Lowest bidder should be allowed to collect toll and keep digital record of
every transaction displayed suitably for information of all. Moment collection
reaches accepted value further collection should be stopped and the collection
system be removed from site. Present system of specifying only time period must
be stopped for all future works. Present contracts should be studied so that
suitable changes could be made and the collection by private parties should be
limited to the extent of quoted amount.
The government must review tendering system to do away with this flaw of
collection of much more amount than the bid quoted by the contractor.
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