ZYF unhappy over road construction work
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, September 27 2013 :
A team of ZYF led by Vice-President and Joint Secretary of ZYF (Assam,Manipur & Nagaland), Chairmen of ZYF Tamei Zone and Tamenglong Zone along with some secretaries accompanied by media persons conducted physical verification and inspection of the ongoing project of road construction work between Tamei HQ and Tamenglong HQ under North Eastern Council (NEC) on 23rd September, 2013 .
According to a statement issued in this connection, David Kamei, Joint Secretary of ZYF (AMN) said that the team detected the construction work not executed in accordance with the prescribe specifications and estimation and not commensurate to the amount withdrawn.
Particularly the culvert near the farmland was constructed without proper based and foundation.
There is no retaining wall to support the culvert thereby the culvert side wing is collapsed.
The culvert constructed near the Dailong village is also too narrow which will be impossible for the vehicle to pass through.
Substandard work detected in most of the works undertaken on the entire road stretch apart from narrowness of the road.
The actual specification of the road is to be constructed with 24 ft width however, there are portion where road is very narrow.
There is no sign of activities of work as all the machineries completely halted.
The team inspected and went till the barak bridge point and it is learnt from the work agency of the bailey suspension bridge constructed over the river barak that there is no proposal for construction of approach road for the bridge.
The concern authority immediate attention is drawn to clarify the matter at the earliest.
The team also inspected the Primary Health Sub Centre (PHSC) of Suanram (Sonpram) village and found out that the PHSC building is occupied by the land donor on the ground and reason that suitable job/appointment did not provided to the land donor in contradiction to the understanding and assurance given at the time of construction.
PHSC Shangrung (Khongshang) village and Luangchum (Awangchul) are also occupied by land donor on similar case.
When large amount of compensation can be paid to land owner in valley areas whenever little piece of land is acquired, why compensation or suitable job/appointment in alternative to compensation money should not be given by the State Govt.to the land donor? In order to fulfill the purpose of construction and keep the PHSC functional one, provision of suitable job/appointment or commensurate compensation money payment to land donor is appropriate and just.
The ZYF will not allow any agencies abandon the work without completion and fulfilling the project.
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