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NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi has asked roadworthy transport ministry to formulate "clear norms and standards" for subcontractors engaged by main road builders to guarantee precocious prime of enactment during task execution.
The ministry has besides been instructed to rework the criteria of eligibility and enactment of supervision engineers, who are liable for prime compliance during construction.These instructions, among respective others, came amid instances of newly-built highways getting damaged owed to mediocre prime enactment - chiefly due to the fact that of abnormally debased prices quoted by bidders to container projects and laxity successful supervision by consultancy firms engaged by the govt. Last Dec, the PM had reviewed the ministry's show and minutes of the gathering issued past period mentions these directions, TOI has learnt.While the ministry has amended the declaration conditions to discourage abnormally debased bids, it is finalising stringent norms for standing of supervision engineers. These volition beryllium rolled retired successful a mates of weeks. The standing volition marque it intolerable for those scoring poorly to get work.
Meanwhile, cracking down connected mediocre performers, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has barred implicit a twelve operation companies and 17 consultancy firms from bidding for projects and has besides imposed an astir Rs 24 crore punishment connected them successful past 2 years. In a bid of disciplinary action, 26 NHAI officers, including respective wide managers and lawman wide managers, were suspended for negligence and dereliction of duty.
Another 57 officers, who were connected deputation, were repatriated prematurely to their genitor cadre arsenic portion of the clean-up drive.In a beardown connection to road builders, NHAI has besides warned contractors that they volition not conscionable look punishment but volition besides person to carnivore the outgo of caller operation for failures.
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