Engineers’ panel formed to draft tenders in Gurugram

Gurugram MC Commissioner Ashok Kumar Garg has constituted a committee of engineers to prepare tender documents carefully for works related to sewerage, drainage, construction/repair of roads and drinking water supply with strict guidelines on work quality, effective timeline for completion of works, provision for penalty, legal action on lapses in work quality and misappropriation of funds.

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This decision was taken by the Commissioner while presiding over a meeting of the engineering wing of the civic body on Saturday. Joint Commissioner Jaiveer Yadav, Chief Engineer Manoj Yadav, all executive engineers, assistant engineers and junior engineers were present in the meeting.

The committee will be headed by executive engineer Ajay Panghal with all executive engineers and chief accounts officer as members.

The committee will prepare all tender documents related to sewerage operation and maintenance by December 30, which will have strict rules, conditions and heavy penalty provisions.

It was also decided in the meeting that the contractor/firm, which has been previously fined more than 20 per cent of the total amount of the tender money, will not be able to participate in the tender process.

It has been observed in the past couple of years that some contractors were not adhering to the guidelines of work quality, probably due to shortcomings in fixing of accountability for lapses in works done by the contractors.

In some cases, it has been found that contractors ran away without completing the works and surprisingly full payments were made to them. The vigilance wing of the Municipal Corporation, Gurugram (MCG), is inquiring into several complaints of misappropriation of funds and poor quality of works done by contractors.

The Commissioner also told all executive engineers that they should hold a meeting with assistant engineers and junior engineers of their respective divisions at least once in a week and invite the chief engineer for review of the works done in the week and discuss future plans.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner revealed that 90 per cent of the complaints received during Samadhan Shivirs were related to sewerage problems, particularly blockage and overflow. “We need to work seriously on resolving these issues,” he said.