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| Contractors lock down R&B office, demands clearing of liabilities of worth Crores | | | Mohammad Sarfaraz
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 14: Kashmir Contractors under the banner of Jammu Kashmir Contractors Central Coordination Committee locked down Roads and Building Department office in Rajbagh area of Srinagar city seeking release of pending bills.
According to statement issued to press that, the deferment of PAO system by new Finance Minister is a welcome step, JKCCCC General Secretary Farooq Ahmed Dar said that government should implement PAO system after April and till then it should clear the Rs 750 Crore liabilities.
He said that contractors have apprehensions that due to financial crunch, government may not be able to release the pending bills of contractors after March.
Government should initiate new measures next year when all the liabilities and pending bills under previous system would be cleared.
"No breathing space has been provided to streamline the system and no provision provided for clearness of liabilities," Dar said.
"The liabilities, if at all, are cleared at the end of financial year and if the previous liabilities are not paid this year it will impact lakhs of souls who are directly are indirectly involved with the system."
The contractors impressed upon the new Finance Minister Syed Altaf Bukhari to defer the implementation of new measures beyond March till the system is established in its proper shape.
"Government should give us in written that it will clear all the liabilities then we don't have any problem with e-billing," Dar said.
However sources told early times that JKCCCC has welcomed the step of deferment of PAO system, but the concerned department of R&B should clear the liabilities first. |
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