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| PMGSY scheme has crumbled in J&K: Harsh | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 26: Flaying the PWD authorities for the total collapse of PMGSY Scheme, Chairman Jammu Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) and MLA Harsh Dev Singh alleged that even 10 percent of the road projects sanctioned under the scheme from the date of its conceptualization and inception around 15 years back are yet to be completed.
He said that thousands of road projects had been cleared under the scheme for construction and macadamization but the desired objective could not be achieved due to official red tape and culpable negligence displayed at various levels by govt. functionaries. JKNPP leader said that though the government made haughty and supercilious claims of getting huge funds from Government of India (GoI) and indulged in self adulation and obsequious self praise, the physical delivery on the ground remained negligible.
Advising the state against extravagant and hypocritical self flattery, Singh called upon the helmsman to undertake an honest appraisal of the functioning of PMGSY in the state. Elaborating further, Harsh Dev Singh said that PMGSY was the most significant GoI flagship programme to provide road connectivity to uncovered villages and hamlets in a time bound manner.
Harsh Dev Singh pointed out that Road projects cleared by GoI under PMGSY in the past from phase I to phase X were required to be completed within a stipulated period of one year but a vast majority of them are lingering for the last several years with majority of them having been abandoned by contractors mid way. He said the executing agencies and contractors abandoning the construction works half way in violation of terms of contract are not penalized by the Department due to vested interests. Harsh Dev Singh further castigated the department for in-ordinate delays in tendering and allotments of approved works. He said dozens of Road and bridges schemes approved in April 2010 under Phase VII had not even been allotted till date despite lapse of more than 4 years due to vested interests.He called for fixation of responsibility and accountability and appropriate action against the delinquent officers whose lethargy and culpable negligence resulted in deprivation of eligible but uncovered habitations of state. |
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