chennai greater chennai corporation has relieved an executive engineer from duty and kept him on standby in connection with irregularities associated with a tender process flagged by arappor iyakkam an anticorruption ngothe city corporation on january 18 had floated tenders worth 998 lakh for providing barricades for pongal festivities at the marina beach to control the crowd in the documents the tender was to be opened only on january 20 the festival which began on january 14 concluded on jan 17 raising questions on why gcc floated tenders on january 18sensing a possible scam arappor on wednesday flagged the tenders and questioned why the civic body floated them after the event on thursday the corporation issued a corrigendum and cancelled the tenders citing administrative reasons the corporation later relieved s pradeep kumar executive engineer of teynampet zone who was responsible for the tendering processcity corporation officials said the police had urged them to provide additional barricades and they had gone for tenders on january 11 it takes a week for tenders to show up online we got administrative sanction and went ahead with the barricading from the corporations funds the executive engineer should have cancelled the online tender immediately but he chose to go to thiruchendur for holiday hence the tender was displayed on january 18 the official saidchennai mayor r priya said they had immediately taken action to cancel the tender once it came to their notice convenor of arappor jayaram venkatesan urged residents to have a watch on the online tenders and be cautious