Mr. D. K. Mohanty, Director, Chairman and Managing Director, Dredging Corporation of India (DCI), has announced that in the next two years, three trailer suction hopper dredgers will join the DCI’s dredging fleet.The Director stated: “We will get a new TSHD in December and another one in July-August next year and one more in the following year (2014). It will substantially improve our performance. It will also give us an opportunity to refurbish our old dredgers and improve our productivity. We are very positive on that front.”
DCI has not been able to procure any new dredging machinery during the past nine years, Parliamentary Standing Committee has pointed out in its latest report. Of the 10 trailer suction dredgers that DCI owns, seven are over 20 years and the oldest is 37 years.
He said the new dredger, to be received in December, would be deployed at the Ramakrishna Beach here for beach nourishment. “We have been taking up the exercise annually here. We are dredging and pumping 3 lakh cubic metres of sand to nourish the beach. The new dredger coming from the Netherlands will be deployed for the purpose,” he said.
Mr. Mohanty said the DCI is competing with the private dredging companies and getting works on a competitive basis. In the past, we used to get works on a nomination basis, but now it is different, he added.
Meanwhile, the CMD administered a pledge to the employees of the DCI on the occasion of the inauguration of Vigilance Awareness Week. He stated that reforms are being introduced in procurement in the PSUs and electronic procurement is being introduced to curb the scope for corruption.
The DCI has also introduced e-procurement. “Our vendors should be ready with the infrastructure to participate in the e-procurement process, but it will take some time,” he observed.
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