The Luangmai (Simbuutlwang) Land Ownership’s Welfare Association (LOWA), Noney sub-division, Noney district has appealed to Social Welfare Minister Heikham Dingo Singh, to take necessary action against a special class contractor for incompletion of construction work after withdrawal of Rs 70 lakh.
In a release issued and signed by chairman of LOWA Gailung Gangmei, the association stated that LOWA deeply deplored that sad state of affairs on the part of the sub-standard work site for the ITI, Noney and the ill-fated project which cannot be accepted by the government and the public.
It said that the special class contractor, MTDC, W Ratan Kumar Singh has withdrawn Rs 70 lakhs of the project cost of Rs 5,01,05,337 on July 1 of last year and it has been 15 months since and even the foundation work is at a standstill without progress.
The amount released for the foundation and infrastructures development cannot be allowed to be neglected for so long lest the time bound work of the project for 18 months lapse as it has been 15 months, the release said, adding that there is no work progress.
Zeliangrong Students’ Union also visited the site and found the work unfit and substandard as reported to the minister concerned. It demanded that the concerned contractor be removed from this work and another contractor, who is fit and honest, be entrusted.
LOWA appealed to the Social Welfare Minister H Dingo Singh, to take necessary action against the said special class contractor. The association will launch agitation if the concerned authorities fail to fulfil their demand at the earliest, it stated.
