District magistrate Chandra Sekhar Bhatt instructed the engineers of Asian Development Bank and World Bank to fill the craters on the motorable roads and remove debris and mud- blocking with transparency and quality.
He also asked them to be vigilant on the contractors and if anything wrong is found they should take severe actions. He said this while monitoring the progress of under- construction motorable roads under the aegis of ADB and World Bank in a meeting held in the district headquarters Pauri on Monday.
Bhatt instructed the concerned working agency to complete the work related to under- construction roads by the deadline. He asked the concerned agencies to complete Chhipalghat- Naiee motorable road by 15 July, to construct scrubber on Paithani-Chuthani motorable road, which was transferred from PMGSY to the concerned working agency, to produce the estimation of Satpuli- Devprayag road again and complete the construction by November. Besides, Vayyaschatti-Bhuminishi stretch of the motorable road must be completed by December. Similarly, Kotdwar-Pulinda road is to be readied by March 2016 in which work is progressing in three phases.
The DM informed that the agreements concerning Satpuli- Dharkot and laxamanjhula- Rathuwadhab stretches have been sent to the state government for approval. Bhatt said that complaints on the damage of Bubakhal-Pauri-Devprayag roads and its slow progress have come to notice. He instructed the concerned working agency to complete things by November.
ADB superintendent engineer Srinagar D K Yadav, World Bank S E Rudraprayag Om Prakash, executive officer ADB, World Bank and district disaster coordinator in- charge Habibur Rehaman were among those present at the meeting.