Cracks found at 50 bedded Tml hospital building
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Daniel Kamei
Tamenglong, November 25 2014:
Lack of quality, cracks on the walls and many incomplete portions found in the 50 bedded Hospital at Tamenglong being constructed with DRDA as the work agency have irked the Zeliangrong bodies.
During a joint inspection to the construction site on Monday, the Zeliangrong Youth Front, Tamenglong zone and the Zeliangrong Students' Union, Tamenglong (ZSUTD) along with media persons found out poor quality of the constructions in the incomplete building.
A number of portions of the building have remained incomplete at the 50 bedded District Hospital at Duigailong, Tamenglong.
The team witnessed many cracks on the wall, where paintings were completed.
The inspection team also found that there is no drainage, no wall fencing, no parking place, and no drinking water in the complex.
Expressing apprehension if the state government happens to inaugurate the building in such a condition, the Zeliangrong bodies appealed to the concerned authority to complete the construction work and equip it with all machineries before inauguration.
For the construction and machineries of the 50 bedded District hospital at Duigailong in Tamenglong, a sum of Rs.14.37 crores was approved and sanctioned on November 30 in 2006 under Prime Minister's package 2006 with DRDA, Tamenlong as work agency.
It may be mentioned that Keibamdi, special contractor; Digaipou, sub-contractor; Poukin Panmei, sub-contractor and Ajang Gangmei, another sub-contractor have been engaged in the construction work of the hospital.
According to the work in-charge Athiam who guided the inspection team at the work site stated that the DRDA does not release the fund on time.
'All the prices of cement, bricks, iron bar etc.
have been increased within two/ three years of construction, but the concerned authority does not update the price rate.
If DRDA releases the fund, we could have finished the work within December this year', Athiam said.
He also disclosed that the officials from DRDA Tamenglong like the ASO, the AE and the EE seldom visited the work site.