Phek, April 18 (MExN): The Nagaland Contractors’ & Suppliers’ Union (NCSU), Phek district unit has expressed shock and displeasure that the Central Ministry for Road has allotted the four-lane project of Dimapur–Kohima road to the Maytas & Gayatri despite their “utter failure” in the last four road projects.
A press release from NCSU Phek Secretary, Razou Lohe and President, Kuzhosheyi Alex stated that the Maytas & Gayatri firm had “miserably failed to perform and should have been contained and black-listed prima facie.” Under such circumstances, the NCSU said, the preference given to the “work-shy” firm is in contempt of all norms and specifications and a grave insult to the people of Nagaland as a whole.
The unit asserted that it will out rightly defy such discrimination and support the NCSU Nagaland to oppose the indiscreet work allotment of the project “unless the same firm makes atonement and complete the incomplete road projects undertaken by it in Nagaland.”
Further, NCSU Phek unit stated it will “not entertain any other works, besides the four-lane Dimapur-Kohima road construction to be undertaken by the same firm even in the near future.”
The Nagas, the release admitted, are enthusiastic about development and the four-lane Dimapur-Kohima road project taken up by the Central Ministry is a mega-project and metropolitan in outlook (first of its kind in Nagaland) and expressed gratefulness for the same. However, it stated, “we are also very much infuriated and while expressing our resentment by the very fact that the work order was managed and issued unscrupulously to an under-performing firm like the Maytas & Gayatri.”
If no immediate redressal measures are initiated, the NCSU Phek unit stated, the firm (Maytas & Gayatri) will only be intercepted by a hostile reception and will be held responsible for occurrences of any ugly or incidences arising out of it.
