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| Past blunders haunt former J&K Chief Minister | | 254 road projects were allotted without administrative approval during Mehbooba’s regime | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 29: A startling revelation about the violation of rules has come to the fore with details revealing that there were as many as 254 past road projects that were allotted to the contractors without administrative approval and technical sanction.
Reports reveal that 254 road projects, sanctioned at a cost of Rs 1,031.35 crore on which expenditure of Rs 514.62 crore was incurred, were allotted at a cost of Rs 935.96 crore, without Administrative Approval and Technical Sanction. Furthermore, out of 272 road projects, tenders for 77 road projects-Jammu: 59; Kashmir: 18-were invited with delay ranging between 3 days to 5 years and 11 months-Road from Balhama to Braman under package No. JK03-08 was approved by the NRRDA in June 2004 whereas NIT was invited on April 2010 by the PIU Baramulla- from the date of approval by the Ministry.
In Jammu province, out of 76 road projects-Phase-VIII in July 2012: 59; Phase-IX in December 2012: 17- under Stage-II cleared by the Union Ministry, 30 road projects-including seven road projects which were sanctioned for Stage-II along with Stage-I - with sanctioned cost of Rs 121.02 crore were not put to tender as Stage-I of these road projects was still incomplete and the remaining 46 road projects with sanctioned cost of Rs 154.31 crore could not be awarded due to poor response to the tenders. Delay upto six years in allotment of work for Stage-II after completion of Stage-I resulting in deterioration of these roads.
Thus, failure of the department to arrange additional funds due to cost escalation of these roads and to ensure the completion of Stage-I before getting the Stage-II of these road projects sanctioned from MoRD and award these road projects even after 60 to 65 months of clearance from the Ministry indicated poor planning There was delay ranging between 3 days to 2 years and 11 months in completing the bidding process of 148 roads projects (Jammu: 96; Kashmir: 52) and in nine cases, the detail of 1st call of tenders was not on record.
254 road projects, sanctioned at a cost of Rs 1,031.35 crore, on which expenditure of Rs 514.62 crore was incurred during 2013-18, were awarded at a cost of Rs 935.96 crore without taking any insurance policies and certificates from the contractors.
Furthermore, mobilization/ machinery advance of Rs 46.52 lakh-Jammu: Rs 2.12 lakh; Ramban: Rs 9.63 lakh; Ganderbal: Rs 11.26 lakh; Anantnag: Rs 0.80 lakh; Baramulla: Rs 2.17 lakh and Kupwara: Rs 20.54 lakh, out of Rs 133.89 lakh sanctioned in February 2009 to December 2017 in respect of eight road projects was not recovered from contractors who had completed the allotted projects or whose contracts were terminated/ fore closed during June 2014 to June 2017. |
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