Haryana blacklists SBI Life for delaying annuity payments
SBI Life Insurance company has been "blacklisted" by Haryana government for allegedly delaying the process of distribution of annuity to land owners under the Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R&R) Policy of the state government.
While giving this information in an release here today, an official spokesman of the Finance Department said, "Haryana government has blacklisted SBI Life Insurance Company Limited and cancelled the bid awarded to it for delaying the entire process of distribution of annuity to the land owners under the state's R&R policy."
He further said stringent actions, including debarring SBI Life Insurance from doing any further business with the State or any of its department could also be taken as per the law.
The official spokesman said that an Expression of interest (EOI) was issued in February, 2011 inviting bids from Insurance Companies or Banks for purposes of providing services for disbursement of annuity to the land owners under R&R policy of the state government.
The bid cum tender document was submitted by SBI Life Insurance on March 31, 2011.
He said that after receipt of the bid documents, several rounds of negotiations and discussions were held with respect to various stipulations and conditions stated in the draft Service Level Agreement (SLA) including the obligation of the noticee as service provider with respect to collection and validation of data of the beneficiaries.
The spokesman further said decisions regarding the contract were taken by the government on July 25, 2011 and August 11, 2011 for making payment of annuity under R&R policy by allocation of
