Nafed government nominee Ashok Thakur has opposed the move of the agri-cooperative to lease out offices and commercial floors through the recently floated tenders. Calling the move as a complete violation of the Board decision, Ashok Thakur has asked Nafed Chairman Mr V R Patel to cancel the tenders with immediate effect.
In his letter Thakur argues that as per the board meeting held on 02 Sep 2015, it was decided that all the assets and properties of Nafed will be handed over to the central government as compensation against the relief package likely to be announced soon.
Further he says as per the order of DRT favoring banks to recover their debts against the assets of NAFED clearly entails the auction/cease of the properties of Nafed including the Head Office.
Beleaguered cooperative has floated tenders aimed at letting out a flat in Kolkata, leasing office and commercial floors and two shops each in DDA Market at Ashram Chowk in Delhi.
Other tenders deal with Public auction of property No.E-16/B-1 Extension Mohan Cooperative Industrial Estate, New Delhi, letting out a Plot measuring 20008.16 sq mts, Sector-1, Dronagiri, Navi Mumbai and letting out the NAFED go-downs situated at Nagapatanam.
In this connection Thakur also quotes the order of Delhi High Court to prove his point. He writes“ as per the orders of Hon’ble High Court of Delhi dated 04/09/2014 “not to dispose off any of its assets or create third party interests therein unless there is an order of court till the next date of hearing. The recently floated tenders are in contempt of the order of the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi (Copy attached).
Lauding the role of the govt. in salvaging NAFED so far, he writes” the government of India is making all efforts and is very serious about easing the NAFED’s present crisis but your activities are not encouraging signs. The tenders are an open denial of the commitment made by the Board of Directors through MD to the government. The people found responsible for the present sorry state of NAFED are still in the Executive and business committee. Some of them known liabilities still continue to be on the board and the board has not taken any action against them.”
Thakur also cites the case filed by the employees of NAFED. “ At last, I would bring it to your notice that in the past the employees of NAFED had filed a court case with same purpose of not allowing any authority of NAFED to sell out the properties and thus making NAFED a bankrupt agency.”