Senior officials of the Panchayat and Rural Development department will now have to compulsorily tour various districts at least ten days in a month to inspect construction works of roads, bridges and culverts of the State.
In a circular issued by the department to all superintending engineers and executive engineers of Chhattisgarh Rural Road Development Agency (CRRDA) and executive engineers of Rural Development Divisions, it was stated that constant inspection was necessary for keeping a watch on the quality of construction works of the agency.
The officials have been asked to inspect the site of construction works at least 10 days every month and submit their tour programme diary to senior officials by tenth of next month.
The circular further informed that the Superintending engineer, before sanctioning the first bill of the construction work, will review the field lab for package and availability of the engineers of contractors and compulsorily submit certificate to Chief Engineer, CRRDA after personally inspecting the place of work. To ensure quality work, the working system of the officials and employees of the project divisions of the agency will be inspected and observed.
Besides, inspection report of construction works will now be presented to the Chief Engineer. During the inspection, the Superintending engineer and the Executive engineer will verify both parts of the register prescribed for quality of roads and maintenance of site order book and that will be mentioned in their inspection report also.
Giving special attention on the geometrics of roads, turning, super elevation, additional widening and chamber etc of roads will be inspected and that will be mentioned in the inspection report. The officers were asked to inspect the cement concrete roads also.