Order on checking poor material

Jammu, March 22

The National Conference has expressed serious concern over the structural cracks developed in the under-construction building of Government Degree College (GDC) at Jindrah. The party urged the administration to institute an inquiry into poor and substandard quality of work, fix responsibility and punish those responsible for the gross negligence.

“It is intriguing how a building has developed structural cracks during the process of construction and speaks volumes about the expertise and material being used,” Devender Singh Rana, provincial president of the NC and former MLA from Nagrota, said in a statement.

Rana observed that the quality of building has shattered the confidence of people who were waiting for the the college to shift to the new complex.

“This is disgusting, more so because the building was to be used by young students, whose safety would have been in jeopardy had such cracks developed after the functioning of the college,” he said and pleaded authorities to stop work forthwith till a safety audit was carried out by the experts.

Rana sought quality-cum-safety audit of the building in the larger interest of people and expressed anguish over the substandard quality of work, hoping that the administration will take cognisance of the matter, fix responsibility. — TNS