Expensive software missing from CMDA records
Posted on: 29/Apr/2013 4:28:54 PM
It has come to light that the Chennai Comprehensive Transportation Study (CCTS), software that was used by consultants Wilbur Smith Associates to provide parameters for the development of transport infrastructure, was not recorded till now. The software was purchased at the cost of Rs. 1.5 crores in 2007.
Says a source, ‘The software, which was used to prepare the CCTS, did not figure in the records for the last five years and it was only after they tried to gather information on Monorail following a query from the government that the absence of records came to light.. The software had all data pertaining to the formulation of proposals of the integrated transportation system capable of accommodating the projected travel demand by appropriate plans, policies, priorities and phasing. Since it could not be located, it had created panic… We have the software but it was not recorded. It is an internal matter and was sorted out.’
