Chief Minister Raghubar Das today said that even after 14 years of Jharkhand’s formation, the State could not get its own Assembly building, but in the last four and half years, its foundation was laid and with public participation, hurdles were also removed. Das said that the best and ideal rehabilitation programmes were made for the displaced and the new Assembly building will be ready for unveiling by September 15.
Holding a review meeting of Building construction and Road construction departments here on Tuesday, the CM asked the officials of building construction department to maintain quality and transparency in its work.
The CM asked officials to maintain complete transparency in the execution of tenders. “No contractor should realise that there is discrimination in the system. Create a system, under which the entire process is executed in a transparent manner. All departments should ensure compliance,” he said.
Das asked to get rid of that the traffic jam at the railway under-pass in Dhanbad and Gaya Bridge as soon as possible. “No Objection Certificate has been received from the railway to make another underpass. Make a DPR soon and take action. Also, make bypass roads in Chatra, Gumla, Giridih and Lohardaga too,” he said.
The Chief Minister said that 41 schemes of road and bridge will be completed in the next three months and it will be dedicated to the public. Construction of 400 kilometers of roads and 15 bridges across the State will be completed. Das said that the road is an important infrastructure, the quality of construction of the path and bridge in Jharkhand has got priority.
During the meeting it was said that that at the time of formation of the State, for every 1,000 km the road density was 67.74, in the 14 years the density increased by 38.93 kilometers and became 106.67 per 1000 km. In the last four and a half years, the increase was 51.14 kilometres per 1,000 square kilometres and now it has become to 157.81 Km.
In the meeting, Development Commissioner- cum-Additional Chief Secretary, Sukhdev Singh, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Sunil Kumar Barnwal, Road Construction department Secretary, KK Soan, Secretary, Building Construction, Sunil Kumar, Road Construction Engineering in Chief Ras Bihari Singh alongwith other officers were present.