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The Supreme Court has directed the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI)and Bhumihiway DDB Ltd (JV), contractor, to approach the Indian Road Congress (IRC),part of Union Ministry for Shipping and Road Transport and Highways, for appointment of Presiding Arbitrator to resolve the dispute between the parties.
A bench comprising Justices A R Lakshmanan and Tarun Chatterjee, in its judgment dated September 25 also quashed the appointment of retired chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, Justice P Chenna Keshav Reddy in place of Justice Y Bhaskar Rao as Presiding Arbitrator by the Orissa High Court as illegal.
A contract between the appellant NHAI and the contractor was signed on June 11, 2001 for widening 4/6 lanes and strengthening of existing 2-Lane carriage of National Highway-5 from Km 233 to 284 between Ichapuram to Ganjam in the state of Orissa, which is part of the Chennai- Kolkata Corridor of the Golden Qauadrilateral connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.
Efforts by the Contractor General to table a document which he said outlines breaches by one major state entity were thwarted Tuesday following strong objection from Government Members of the Public Accounts Committee.
The Government members, whose objection was eventually endorsed by Opposition MPs, insisted that the document had nothing to do with the probe into the alleged irregularities surrounding the Sandals Whitehouse project. Contractor General, Greg Christie continued his presentation to the PAC Tuesday by reading from a letter which he had prepared following last weeks sitting. In his letter, which was also circulated to committee members, Mr. Christie took issue with several remarks made last week by some Government members. These included suggestions by K.D. Knight that he had fallen down on the job when he failed to get the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) to produce documents which his office had requested.
New York (dpa) Oshkosh Truck Corp, a maker of military, emergency, construction and garbage-collection vehicles, plans to buy construction firm JLG Industries Inc for 3.2 billion dollars, the two companies said Monday. McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania-based JLG is primarily a maker of construction equipment - including forklifts, work platforms and specialty vehicles - and will form the largest portion of Oshkosh's four business sections. Oshkosh has been expanding into new fields through a variety of acquisitions in the last 10 years as the company - based in the city of the same name in Wisconsin - seeks to reduce its dependence on defence contracts. The acquisition, which still needs the approval of JLG shareholders, would create a company with annual sales of 6 billion dollars and about 13,000 employees Related News
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lewin Group has been named a 2006 Outstanding Contractor by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families (ACF) for its work on the Healthy Marriage Initiative. Assistant Secretary Wade F. Horn, Ph.D., presented the award to Ron Johnson, Executive Vice President of The Lewin Group, at the Assistant Secretary's Honor Awards Ceremony on Oct. 5. The Lewin Group, a leading health care and human services consulting firm, was recognized for "outstanding performance in providing technical assistance to ACF Healthy Marriage grantees, for providing ongoing support to the ACF African American and ACF Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiatives and for exhibiting the highest degree of professionalism in responding to ACF priorities." Lewin's work with ACF included assisting 45 Healthy Marriage grantees with implementing programs, strategic planning, establishing performance measures and development of management information systems, among other things.
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