AMC proposal to award ₹3cr contracts to tainted co cancelled

Ahmedabad: AMC’s water and sewerage committee on Wednesday cancelled the controversial proposals to award two contracts worth close to Rs 3 crore in total to Dhruvi Buildcon Pvt Ltd, tainted by a Rs 81 lakh scam.

Despite calls to file a police complaint and blacklist it, sources said the company has not been blacklisted yet. The water and sewerage committee has sent the proposals on repairing breakdowns and laying drainage pipelines back to the commissioner. In May 2026, the civic body’s vigilance department found that the company had tampered with measurement books and that there were discrepancies between the actual work on-site and the recorded measurements. The contractor had lifted pipeline data from a 2024 project by another firm to pocket Rs 76.2 lakh without executing the work. Fabricated records masked the fraud, and deceptive manhole classifications cost the AMC another Rs 21 lakh. Following the probe, the municipal commissioner suspended four officials, including an additional engineer, and ordered a total recovery of Rs 81.7 lakh.