Azhar Qadri

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, September 27

The ongoing Internet shutdown has affected the working of the state government as the administration ordered cancellation of three more online bids due to lack of response.

The online bids were cancelled by the state government’s Town Drainage Division, the Department of Hospital Engineering and by the Executive Engineer, Mechanical, SKIMS Hospital.

In a public notification, the Town Drainage Division said it cancelled an e-tender as it could not be uploaded on the website “due to non-availability of Internet service”.

In another notification issued by the office of the Executive Engineer, Mechanical, the online tender seeking to provide medical gas facility to the operation theatre of Vet Lab at SKIMS Hospital has been cancelled. It said the bid was cancelled due to “poor response”.

In a third such public notification within a day, the state government’s Department of Hospital Engineering said it has cancelled an online tender for augmentation of 630 KVA transformer by 1 MVA transformer with 800 KVA servo stabiliser and other allied works at SKIMS MCH Bemina.

The cancellation of the online bids has come in the wake of the ongoing Internet clampdown in the state which came into effect on midnight of August 4, hours ahead of the abrogation of Article 370.