State governmentprocuring substandard wheelchairs, says PIL plea
The Hindu
Petitioner faults Bengaluru-based firm
A public interest litigation (PIL) petition has been filed in the Madras High Court complaining that the State government had been procuring and supplying substandard and defective battery-operated wheelchairs since 2015 to those suffering from muscular dystrophy and tetraplegia.
The case filed by Spinal Injured Persons Association, a registered body, has been listed for admission before Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice P.D. Audikesavalu on Monday. The association wants the government restrained from procuring the wheelchairs without conducting quality check.
In an affidavit filed through its counsel E. Vijay Anand, the association president D. Gnana Bharathi said the government had introduced the scheme of supplying battery operated wheelchairs in 2015. Since then, a private company based in Bengaluru had been bagging the contract periodically.
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