Finance Minister and Haldwani MlA Indira Hridayesh has expressed dissatisfaction at slow pace of construction of the international stadium in Haldwani. The Minister said this after conducting inspections of various construction works here on Monday.
The Minister said that national games are slated to be held in the State for the first time in 2017 for which the international stadium mega project in Haldwani should be completed within the given timeframe. She asked engineers and project manager of the executing agency to speed up the construction. The number of engineers, labourers and masons should doubled or tripled if needed in order to ensure work at this site in two shifts. She directed the city commissioner Harvir Singh and sub divisional magistrate Pankaj Upadhyay to regularly monitor the construction and work quality at this site. Stating that she will periodically inspect this project site, the minister informed that her next visit to this site will be on November 19.
Earlier, the Minister also inspected the re-construction of a stadium ongoing in Haldwani town. She pulled up the official concerned of the executing agency-Uttar Pradesh Rajkeeya Nirman Nigam for the slow pace of work on this project. She questioned the reason for only Rs one crore being spent out of the Rs seven crore approved for the project.