Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh asked the departments involved in construction works to give special attention on the maintenance of bridge, culverts, roads, irrigation tanks and public drinking water schemes during the monsoon season. Dr Singh said that there would be no compromise with quality of construction works.
The Chief Minister on Wednesday reviewed government construction works going on under different schemes in Rajnandgaon district headquarters and other areas at the meeting of senior officers of various departments held at his residence in the State capital.
He instructed to give special attention towards quality and time limit in the construction of various under-construction bridges, culverts, roads and irrigation tanks.
Mentioning the incident of damage to the Mohara bridge near Rajnandgaon and irrigation anicut caused due to heavy rains, the Chief Minister expressed his displeasure and said that in future, any type of weakness or carelessness in the quality of construction works would not be tolerated.
The Chief Minister instructed to prepare a plan for the repair of the Mohara bridge and anicut and constituted a four-member committee, comprising Chief engineers of PWD, Irrigation and PHED and commissioner of Rajnandgaon Municipal Corporation, for the work.
He expressed displeasure over the delay in the construction of some schemes related to PWD and irrigation department and instructed to complete construction of fly-over on Bypass road in Rajnandgaon on war footing.
In the meeting, the Chief Minister reviewed progress of construction government women polytechnic college building, transport office building, Astroturf ground for hockey, Kheiragarh road and under construction roads in Rajnandgaon city.
Secretary to Chief Minister Aman Kumar Singh, mining secretary MK Tyagi, revenue secretary KR Pisda, PHED secretary GS Mishra, commissioner urban administration Dr Rohit Yadav, managing director Chhattisgarh Power Distribution Company Subodh Kumar Singh, Collector Rajnandgaon Ashok Agrawal, director Sports and Youth Welfare department Jitendra Shukla and senior officers from PWD, Water Resources and PHED were present at the meeting.