District Magistrate Pauri Sushil Kumar in a meeting on Wednesday was annoyed over Public Works Department having given him a wrong report of a construction work and instructed the department to complete the project at the earliest. He warned against including any controversial project in the district plan. He sounded angry over the absence of some senior officers tasked to oversee construction projects at the meeting.
Earlier, the DM monitored the progress of the implementation of the district plan aside from the Centre and State-sponsored schemes in Pauri. The DM directed the construction agencies and departments to complete at least 80 percent of the ongoing projects at the earliest while asking for physical verification of the progress of such projects by the senior officers. He also stressed on transparency and quality of the materials being used for such constructions. While expressing annoyance over incomplete and faulty reports being sent to him, he said that they must send him complete information. He asked the task force to furnish the verification report after physical verification of the sites within the stipulated time.
DM said that Rs 84.25 crore has been sanctioned for the district sector 2017-18 while Rs 43.12 crore has so far been received. While Rs 34.59 has been allotted to different departments Rs 19.02 crore has been spent so far by the departments. In the state sector, Rs 15.95 crore has been released out of the sanctioned Rs 39.06 crore. The department has spent Rs 11.06 crore so far. In case of the Centre- aided schemes. Rs 19.13 crore has been released against Rs 40.19 crore and the departments concerned have spent Rs 13.79 crore. In case of schemes executed with external funds, Rs 7.44 crore has been spent against the released fund of Rs 8.99 crore.
Among those present at the meeting were the chief development officer Navneet Chimma, project director SS Sharma, APD Sunil Kumar and chief education officer Madan Singh Rawat.