Deadline near, firm yet to complete work

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, December 11

The deadline for the Rs 288-crore sewerage and water supply project will end on December 17 but various works under the projects are still lying incomplete.

The Triveni Constructions company has demanded more six months to complete the pending work. Till date, it has not received any extension in writing.

The work on laying 12.5 km-long parallel pipeline adjoining the sullage carrier for increasing its capacity was stopped in May as work front is not given to the company. In the past two years, the company has been able to lay 3.2 km pipeline so far.

The work on the 12 km sewage line from Adarsh Nagar to Chandbhan has not been started yet as the firm has not received the approval of the Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board.

The work on the water treatment plant and water storage tank in the Growth Centre area has also been hanging fire since long as the Triveni company did not get the area. The issue of lifting the mud from the area has not been resolved.

The Triveni company has been working for the past two and half years. Till date, it has only been able to finish around 40 per cent of the work of the project.

VB Shivangi, DGM, Triveni Constructions, said the MC had not given work front and payment on time, which led to a delay in the completion of the project. He said due to a delay in the payment, they were not able to pay the amount to contractors and they stopped the work in between.

He said they had written a letter to the MC for extending the deadline of the project. But they had not received any anything in written so far, the DGM added. It has come to know that MC officials have told the firm to go ahead with the project.

Senior Deputy Mayor Tarsem Goyal said the work of the sewerage board, which was heading and conducting the project, was not up to the mark as the main sewerage line in the Canal Colony area was leaking till date.