Actor Salman Khan’s Being Human Foundation faces blacklisting by the BMC for not setting up concessional dialysis units in Bandra over a year after being allotted the project.
In December 2016, the BMC had decided to start 12 dialysis centres to perform up to 10,000 procedures a month. As per the proposed model, the civic body was to provide the space for the facility while the NGO was to look after the appointment of staff and maintenance of the centre.
Salman’s Being Human Foundation was supposed to set up 24 dialysis machines at Allied Cooperative Society on St John’s Road in Pali Hill. However, now it has been revealed that Being Human failed to keep up with its word. “Being Human, which was shortlisted for running the dialysis centre at Bandra (West), had paid the bank guarantee and was granted all the necessary permissions to go ahead with the project. But with the project not taking off, we have issued them a show-cause notice warning that they would be blacklisted,” said a senior civic official.
Additional Municipal Commissioner, Idez Kundan, who is in charge of the health facilities, maintained that the news is indeed true.
On the other hand, Being Human officials have a different story to tell. According to them, there were a few mandatory requirements that the civic body failed to fulfill. They further also revealed that no official contract was signed between them and the civic body and that all these conversations were only in the discussion stage and nothing materialized further.
“The Being Human Foundation has certain mandatory requirements which need to be included in contracts. There were discussions around those which ultimately did not materialise. There was no formal contract/MoU signed at all,” Loretta Lewis, a representative from the foundation, said in an email statement.