After all the gung-ho about banning the Chinese apps and products, the National Capital Region Transport Corporation has now given a contract to a Chinese company, Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Company Limited, for the construction of a 5.6-kilometer underground stretch of the Delhi-Meerut RRTS project.

The stretch will be made from New Ashok Nagar to Sahibabad. “Approvals have to be taken at various levels for bids that are funded by multilateral agencies. This bid was also awarded following the set procedure and guidelines. Now, all the civil work tenders of the 82-km-long Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor have been awarded and the construction is going on in full swing to commission the project in time,” an NCRTC spokesperson told PTI.

The 82-km-long Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor is being funded by the Asian Development Bank. The time to commute from Delhi to Meerut will be only one hour as opposed to the earlier which took around 4 hours. The entire corridor will be operational in 2025.

After the news started to go viral, people started to question the whole idea of being ‘atmanirbhar’ and attacked the Modi government. They have also started to trend #BoycottChina on Twitter.

Here’s what people have to say:

This is extremely bad example to the national sentiments of anti china movement. Govt gives rail contract to Chinese co. This is not acceptable
Delhi-Meerut #BoycottChina pic.twitter.com/d6VrpiHMa2

— S.SHAHID(محمّد شا رف شاھد) (@pintu_army) January 4, 2021

आत्मनिर्भर भारत।। #BoycottChina... pic.twitter.com/xOrx4uoFVi

— Pankaj Ghiya (@ghiyapankaj) January 4, 2021

Were Our Army soldiers martyred for this hollowness??This government is neither of Kisans nor Jawans.

The Modi regime only use Jawans and Kisans for their political benefit not for nation First.#BoycottChina #JaiJawanJaiKisan pic.twitter.com/AG3clLSEG1

— AryanKumar (@IAryanKr) January 4, 2021

#DelhiMeerutRapidRailProject:- This is an extremely bad example of the national sentiments of #antichinamovement. Govt gives rail contract to Chinese co. This is not acceptable Angry face#BoycottChina pic.twitter.com/8gBauS90sv

— Piyush Goyal (@goyalpp) January 4, 2021

What about #AtmaNirbharBharat #BoycottChina #MadeInIndia @PMOIndia https://t.co/eBG0VA3ba7

— Vishu Gupta (@gupta__vishu) January 4, 2021

The Prime Moron banned Tik Tok , PUBG and useful apps in garb of #BoycottChina and now giving million dollar contracts to China . Hypocrisy level: 56 inch

— Sahil Prasad (@laxmi407) January 4, 2021

However, the same PTI article also mentioned that the ‘NCRTC had invited bids for the construction of the tunnel’. It also added that ‘according to the ADB’s procurement guidelines, vendors from all member countries of the bank are eligible to participate in the bidding process without any discrimination’.

Five firms qualified for the technical bid evaluation but it was the Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Company Limited that emerged as the L1 bidder for the tender after qualifying on all the parameters. This is why the contract was awarded to the Chinese based company.

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