The officers should ensure that the construction of engineering colleges and polytechnic colleges in Uttarakhand is done strictly as per the norms laid down by the All India council of Technical Education (AICTE). The Cabinet Minister for revenue, technical education, irrigation, rural engineering, roads and drainage, Yashpal Arya said this while taking a review meeting of Technical Education department at Vidhan Sabha on Thursday.
He said that it should be ensured that the executing agency assigned the task of building the engineering colleges is doing quality work on time. The Minister also highlighted the importance of timely completion of construction of college buildings so that they are handed over for the studies. The Minister was apprised by the officials about the financial approvals and the status of the construction works of 21 male and female hostels in different parts of the State.
He was told that `90 lakh were sanctioned for Government Polytechnic College, Srinagar, and work on the project is complete. The senior officers informed the Minister that `90 lakh each is sanctioned for the Government Polytechnic colleges of Kotdwar, Dehradun, Kotabag, Thalnadi, Satpuli, Narendranagar, Rudraprayag, Dwarhat, Aamwala, Beeronkhal, Gangoli, Uttarkashi and Shyampur.
Similar amount is also sanctioned for Government Women’s polytechnic colleges of Almora and Dehradun. These colleges would be constructed by the executing agency, Uttar Pradesh Nirman Nigam, Uttarakhand Peyjal Nigam and Uttarakhand Infrastructure development Corporation.
Arya was told that these works are in different stages of completion on which the Minister ordered that the pending works should be completed soon. The Minister also directed the officials to send weekly progress reports to secretary technical education. In the meeting, works under Special Plan Assistance (SPA) of State plan were also reviewed.
The secretary technical education RK Sudhanshu informed Arya that amounts of `6112.31 lakh and `650 lakh were released under the Government orders dated March 3 and March 31 2014 respectively.
The meeting was also attended by Additional Secretary Technical education Sachin Kurve, Secretary Technical education council Hari Singh and joint director technical education Desh Raj Singh.