{"id":999852,"date":"2026-03-28T09:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999852"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:41:39","slug":"revised-it-project-tender-to-cost-state-rs-700-crore-more-chennithala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/28\/revised-it-project-tender-to-cost-state-rs-700-crore-more-chennithala\/","title":{"rendered":"Revised IT project tender to cost state Rs 700 crore more: Chennithala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala on Friday alleged that the state government\u2019s revision of tender norms in a major IT project would cause losses to the tune of Rs 700 crore to the exchequer. <\/p>\n<p>Referring to the project to implement a common software platform across the state\u2019s 4,415 primary cooperative societies, Chennithala said the contract was initially awarded to TCS for Rs 206 crore following tender process in 2023-24. <\/p>\n<p>The deal was later cancelled and a fresh, revised tender issued, he said at a press conference. \u201cChanges in the tender norms appeared to be a deliberate attempt to keep major IT firms like TCS out of the process,\u201d he alleged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala on Friday alleged that the state government\u2019s revision of tender norms in a major IT project would cause losses to the tune of Rs 700 crore to the exchequer. Referring to the project to implement a common software platform across the state\u2019s 4,415 primary cooperative societies, Chennithala said the contract was initially awarded to TCS for Rs 206 crore following tender process in 2023-24. The deal was later cancelled and a fresh, revised tender issued, he said at a press conference. \u201cChanges in the tender norms appeared to be a deliberate attempt to keep [&hellip;]<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999852","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=999852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}