{"id":990580,"date":"2026-02-07T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990580"},"modified":"2026-02-07T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:11:13","slug":"questions-over-chromebook-procurement-in-andhra-pradesh-gem-flags-concerns-public-loss-feared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/07\/questions-over-chromebook-procurement-in-andhra-pradesh-gem-flags-concerns-public-loss-feared\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions over Chromebook procurement in Andhra Pradesh: GeM flags concerns, public loss feared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], February 06: Serious concerns have surfaced over a Government of India\u2013funded school IT procurement in Andhra Pradesh, with documents indicating that the tender process for Chromebooks may have been structured and modified to favour select bidders, potentially causing a significant loss to the public exchequer. The controversy relates to the procurement of 51,885 Chromebooks for government schools under a Project Approval Board (PAB)\u2013approved scheme of the Ministry of Education, Government of India. The e-tender, issued by the State Project Director, AP Samagra Shiksha Society (APSSS), closed on January 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], February 06: Serious concerns have surfaced over a Government of India\u2013funded school IT procurement in Andhra Pradesh, with documents indicating that the tender process for Chromebooks may have been structured and modified to favour select bidders, potentially causing a significant loss to the public exchequer. The controversy relates to the procurement of 51,885 Chromebooks for government schools under a Project Approval Board (PAB)\u2013approved scheme of the Ministry of Education, Government of India. The e-tender, issued by the State Project Director, AP Samagra Shiksha Society (APSSS), closed on January 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}