KOHIMA, JULY 21 (MExN): The Nagaland Contractors & Suppliers' Union (NCSU) has asked the Nagaland Chief Minister to allot work orders for the reported 40 PMGSY projects in Nagaland under the Rural Development to 40 different firms. In a representation to the CM, the NCSU said “it is learnt that the government is planning to allot work to only 16 firms.”
It is pertinent to mention that there are many local Class-1 registered contractors out of which very few firms are privileged leaving many other firms high and dry, the NCSU pointed out. Moreover, it noted that the National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency has issued detailed guidelines for construction of minimum 15% of road length by using New Technologies under PMGSY.
States and Union Territories should mandatorily construct roads under PMGSY-III by using plastics waste within the minimum 15% of road length prescribed for new technologies as envisaged in the detailed guidelines issued by NRIDA, it informed. Works will be packaged so as to attract competent contractors with modern machinery and equipment and capable of nurturing small contractors, the NCSU said. In order to “deliver justice,” the union appealed approval for issuing the work orders in the form of one work order each to 40 firms for execution of the projects.
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