NewsID: 14 Author kulsoom Nizam Dated 27 January 2010
Subject CEO ERA inspects Road Projects:
Transport Jammu
Jammu,Jan27:Shri B.B. Vyas CEO ERA accompanied by Shri M.M. Gupta Director-Transport ERA, visited Drabshala-Bimalnag Road, Doda -Bharat Road and Bani -Daggar Road to review the progress of these road projects being executed by J&K ERA. He was accompanied by Project Manager Transport ERA, and other senior officers of ERA, DSC and PMC. He exhorted upon the officers to expedite the work to ensure the early completion of various projects under execution. He also took detailed meeting with district administration on various bottlenecks including the pending cases of land acquisition, on which CEO ERA was assured that all land acquisition cases will be finalized by the end of Feb 2010.
He also inspected Doda-Bharat Road being constructed at a cost of Rs. 22.45 crores. CEO had a detailed site inspection and post construction quality control test were conducted by the team of experts accompanying the CEO. He directed the contractor to accelerate the pace of work. Deputy Commissioner Doda informed that the process of land acquisition is in the final stage. CEO directed Director Transport to place the required Funds at the disposal of Deputy Commissioner so that land is handed over to ERA .
During visit of Bani-Dhagger Road ,CEO ERA expressed disappointment on slow progress. SDM Bani also informed CEO and Director Transport about the hardships being faced by the people due to delay in execution of the project. While taking strong note of it, CEO directed officers and Supervisory/Management consultants on spot to look for alternate arrangement, in case of the failure of contractor to complete the work. SDM assured that the issue of handing over of land will be sorted out at the earliest ,though this is not affecting the availability of front to work.
Besides, on spot inspection CEO ERA also took detailed review of various projects in Jammu and exhorted upon all the concerned officers to take proactive action so that these projects are completed within the targeted time.
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