The Uttar Pradesh government, on Wednesday, reviewed the on-going construction work in the police department and gave necessary instructions to complete it at earliest.
Giving this information here on Wednesday evening, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi said that on the directions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, they were making serious efforts to speed up the residential and non-residential construction works in the police department.
He said in a high-level meeting held at the Command Centre in Lok Bhavan, a thorough review of the action taken by various construction agencies was done. He said that the construction works for which all the funds had been released should be completed at the earliest.
Awasthi directed the construction agencies that the works for which funds had been given by the government should be completed within the stipulated time limit. He also directed that the utilisation certificate of the construction work for which the funds provided by the government should be made available to the government immediately through the police headquarters so that the next installment could be released to the construction agencies.
While giving instructions to expedite the construction works, the additional chief secretary also said that the construction works which were in the state of completion were planned to be inaugurated this month.
It may be mentioned that 661 residential and non-residential buildings are being constructed for the police department.
It is also worth mentioning that out of these, 472 works are to be done as per the chief minister's announcement. They include 57 fire stations, 10 outposts, 38 police stations, 36 transit hostels in police lines, 46 men/women hostels in police lines, 31 PAC battalions. This includes construction of barracks, hostels at 247 police stations, expansion of three educational training institutes, three residential and non-residential buildings of women PAC battalions and one police line. Apart from this, 189 construction works are also being done.
Out of these, 154 construction works of five construction agencies are in the list of works to be completed as per the prescribed action plan for six months.