Salman Khan's Being Human Foundation in trouble; faces blacklisting by BMC

Salman Khan’s Being Human Foundation has been blacklisted by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for not setting up concessional dialysis units in Bandra over a year after being allotted the project, reports Mumbai Mirror. Apart from blacklisting the foundation, a show-cause notice has also been served to Being Human. 

The civic body has reportedly not only “forfeited” the NGO’s deposit but has already floated fresh tenders to find a replacement. 

As per the report, the BMC had decided to start “12 dialysis centres, housing 199 dialysis machines which could perform up to 10,000 procedures a month” in December 2016. As per the public private partnership (PPP) model, BMC was given the responsibility to provide the space while the NGO was to look after the appointment of staff and maintenance of the centre in order to set up 24 dialysis machines at Allied Cooperative Society on St John’s Road in Pali Hill.

Among the several proposals invited for the project in July 2016, Being Human had offered to provide dialysis services at Rs 339.50 against BMC's rate of Rs 350. But Salman Khan’s foundation failed to do so. 

While Salman Khan’s Being Human Foundation confirmed that the foundation was aware of a possible blacklisting, a spokesman for the foundation said they had not signed a formal contract with the BMC. “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.