State to revise schedule rates

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 20

Taking a historic decision to eradicate corruption, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday announced the revision of the schedule rates, which remained unchanged since 1987.

As per the announcement, the new schedule rates will come into force from March 1.

The revised rates will act as the base for inviting new tenders and evaluating work performance. It would be revised after every five years, announced the Chief Minister.

He was presiding over the first-of-its-kind meeting with administrative secretaries and civil engineer contractors here.

Khattar said from now onwards, state-level IT solution would be introduced for works pertaining to civil engineering. This system would be implemented from April 1 and contractors would now have to get themselves registered.

The Chief Minister said e-tendering of all civil works would be done from now onwards.

Along with this, IT-based technical evaluation and allotment of work would also be done online by the departments concerned. Besides this, the manual filling of measurement books (MB) by contractors would be replaced by ‘e-medium’.