In Jharkhand, the tender issued to provide gram dal to the poor at Re 1 per kg has remained entangled in the clutches of brokers.
- Many irregularities in the tender of gram dal, rules were violated to give the tender to the desired supplier - No action was taken where FIR should have been registered, involvement of the people of the department exposed Ashish Jha, Ranchi. In Jharkhand, the tender issued to provide gram dal to the poor at Re 1 per kg has completely got entangled in the clutches of brokers. Due to no decision, no company has yet received the tender for the supply of pulses.
There are serious allegations against the two companies which got L-1 and L-2 status in the tender. Both the companies filled the tender paper by copying the data from the catalog of the Central Enterprises and this is confirmed by the time of filling the paper and the catalog number.
We Care Seeds surreptitiously used the catalog of the Central Enterprise. In this case, without registering an FIR, the companies were selected. We Care Seeds filled the tender for supply of chana dal for Rs 160.46 crore. While Anandeshwar Agro Food Private Limited quoted a rate of Rs 160.65 crore. For this reason V Care got L-1 status.
15 companies had participated
After the tender issued on 27 September 2025, a total of 15 companies had participated in this process. There were also two central enterprises among them. The data of central undertakings namely Central Government Employees Consumer Cooperation Society Limited and NCCF of India Limited was attached with the tender of two other companies.
Both the central undertakings have not yet filed any written complaint. But despite being caught, no action is taken also gives rise to suspicion.
Representatives of the Finance Department and Monitoring Department are also included in the tender committee for pulses. Despite this, the execution of the tender raises many questions.
These irregularities occurred in the selection of agency for supply of pulses.
1. Theft catalog was used but no FIR was lodged. We Care Seeds, a company declared as L-1 through tender, wrongly used the theft catalog (number – 6363552859) but instead of registering an FIR, it was declared as S1.
According to the rules, if any company steals and uses the catalog of another company, then an FIR should be filed on its basis. We Care Seeds, the agency selected for the supply of gram pulses, quoted the rates by stealing the catalog of Indian Government company NCCF.
The catalog number of both the companies is the same. This is revealed from the time recorded on the website itself. While NCCF had filled the tender at 5:08 pm on November 21, We Care Seeds had filled the tender at 5:51 pm.
On top of that, he attached another company's catalog wrongly claiming it as his own. There is a difference of more than 43 minutes between the two companies in the order of filling the tender papers.
There is also information on the internet media that the owner of We Care Seeds is being questioned in a case of income tax evasion of Rs 1000 crore. However this has not been confirmed. This company has also been exempted from paying EMD which is against the rules.
For this, as per the rules, it is mandatory for the company to be registered in Jharkhand. The company is not registered in Jharkhand. The name of this company is not even in MSME.
2. Anandeshwar Agro Foods Private Limited reached L-2 in the tender process using the catalog of Central Government Employees Consumer Cooperation Society (No.-58770170785).
3. The big thing is that out of total fifteen companies, thirteen companies were declared ineligible and only those companies were declared eligible which filled the tender paper from the stolen catalogue.
Even the two Government of India companies whose catalogs were stolen and the tenders were filled by them were declared ineligible and these two pre-determined companies were specifically declared eligible so that the tender could be decided arbitrarily.