mumbai a committee of the state legislature has passed strictures against an infrastructure project that is widely perceived as former chief minister ashok chavans pet scheme the estimates committee ruled that infrastructure upgrade works taken up as part of the nanded city development plan were not in keeping with the norms during his cm term chavan who hails from nanded managed to get central and state funding for the rs 817 crore plan the works taken up under which included major roadrelated upgrades the committee led by balasaheb patil of the ncp and comprising members from all parties also found illegalities and irregularities in a buildoperatetransfer contract awarded by the nanded wagala municipal corporation nwmc in 2007 for running a bus service that eventually failed the nwmc which has been under chavans control for years now had also agreed to stand guarantee for the credit raised by the operator siddheshwar travels private ltd while the committee asked the state to set up a highlevel committee to probe the bus contract it asked the government and the nwmc to do a course correction in the infrastructure upgrade project and ensure violations do not occur again works taken up under the infrastructure plan including major roadrelated works like concretization setting up of cycle tracks footpaths streetlights parking lots and nullah widening the works were taken up as part of the preparations for the tricentenary of gurutagaddi in nanded the committee which reviewed the works taken up under the project claimed that norms had been violated it however did not recommend any inquiry in the matter but asked the government and the corporation to ensure that the deficiencies were not repeated again in 2007 the corporation decided to award a contract to siddheshwar travels private ltd to run the city bus service and even agreed to stand guarantee for credit raised by the firm the service ran into trouble and was eventually discontinued alleging to irregularities in the contract the committee has sought a highlevel probe