A company in Jammu, which does not possess the PSARA (Private Security Agencies Regulation Act) certificate, is manipulating government tenders to take up works in various departments, including the public health engineering (PHE), public works department and the health department.
The documents of a company named Unique Sanitation and Outsourcing Services, which are in possession of The Tribune, reveal that it has forged the signatures of the PSARA issuing authority and attached the documents with different tenders in the PHE, Mechanical Division, Udhampur, and at the Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu.
The Private Security Agencies Regulation Act (PSARA), 2005, Ministry of Home Affairs, issues a certificate to the contract companies which provide private security services to various agencies and government departments. There is a binding with the agencies / government departments requiring private security services to advertise for tenders for such requirements to seek the PSARA certificate from the applicants.
The Jammu-based company, which had applied for a tender advertised by the PHE, Mechanical Division, Udhampur, and the Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu, had attached a certificate which was testified fake by the Home Affairs Department, Jammu.
