Radia with Chandolia on Funding a hospital in Raja\’s Constituency
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Any Comments, Mr.Righteous?.
Discharging Social duty?
Tata’s have come out with a statement(18 May 2011) ostensibly trying to clear Tata’s name in the donation of a high cost Scanner to hospital in Perambalur,home constituency of A.Raja,wh swindled Rs.1,76,000 Crores and now in jail.
The statement starts with
However, the material fact is that grant was ultimately not given since the Tamil Nadu Government was required to spend Rs. 82 cr initially, which it had not implemented…….
and ends with
A grant of Rs. 8 crores was sanctioned against this request. Of this sanctioned amount, only a sum of Rs. 3.26 crores was released by the Trust and spent by the hospital, towards the cost of a CT Scan machine and allied medical equipment to augment its facilities to treat the rural poor. Additionally, the CT scan and allied equipment are in actual use for the poor patients. As is the practice, the Trust had the progress of the project reviewed by an external expert. The expert reported slow progress on account of lack of infrastructure and trained technical personnel, and hence no further amount was released. In summary, the Trusts have given Rs. 3.26 cr against actual equipment procured and installed.
Full Statement at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/2g-scam-tata-sons-statement-on-shahid-balwa-s-allegations-106822?cp
Transcript of the tape.
Niira Radia: Hi, How are you?
RKC: Haan, good afternoon, I’m fine, how are you?
NR: I’m all right. Well, I’m snowed under, in Bombay, or should I say washed under with the rain…
RKC: Okay.
NR: How are you?
RKC: When are you coming back to Delhi?
NR: Not till Tuesday, Wednesday…
RKC: Okay, okay…could you speak?
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NR: I did speak to Krishna Kumar, I did speak to him, he was supposed to tell the…take the…you see, let me tell you where they are coming from…they’re going ahead, they want to do that, they (are) doing the hospital in Perambalur, no problem right? But what they want to do is, and because the charter of the trust allows them to do it only in a particular manner, what they have to do is, they have to provide equipment for the hospital.
RKC: Okay.
NR: Or they provide say, certain wards, they’ll build certain wards or something. So the letter that we have to do, it’s not a cheque-cheque that we give, we actually have to give a letter, and based on that letter, when they start working on the hospital, on certain areas that I decided, between the wards or equipment, then those disbursements start happening.
RKC: Okay, toh aap ek kaam karo na, you just talk…call him, minister…
NR: Hmm.
RKC: And tell him, because he was waiting your call…
NR: He’s waiting my call?
RKC: Haan, haan.
NR: Okay, has he left for Chennai or is he still here?
RKC: Nahin, he is in Chennai.
NR: He is in Chennai, is it?
RKC: Haan, haan.
NR: When will he come back?
RKC: He’ll come on Monday.
NR: He’ll come on Monday. Okay, I’ll have a word…
RKC: Aap baat karke mujhe bata dena aapki baat ho jab.
NR: Okay. I’m sorry maine phir uske baad phone nahin kiya, kyunki kal hi jaake baat hui hai.
RKC: Haan, haan.
NR: So I…I…that’s what he said to me, I just wanted that clarity. Toh maine kaha jo bhi hai, tum (unclear) leke jaake submit kar do na, do a nice photo-op and all that. Maine yahi usko bola tha.
RKC: Haan, haan.
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?269671
Related:
Confirming that he had received a letter from the CBI, Mr. Raja told journalists that he was in Chennai for “personal work and health check-up.” He had immediately sent a reply to the agency that he would appear before the authorities at a date convenient to the CBI. It was up to the CBI to indicate the fresh date.
He maintained that he was neither evading the law nor hiding. Mr. Raja also said that he would not seek anticipatory bail as he was not an accused.
On his recent meetings with Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, he termed them the usual between the leader and a cadre.
Related:
http://ramanisblog.in/2011/02/23/unitech-a-front-for-tata-group/
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