Kohima, February 23 (MExN): The Nagaland Govt. Registered Class-1 Contractors’ Union (NGRC-1 CU) has urged the Chief Minister of Nagaland to release the pending bills of the contractors before the end of the present financial year. In a representation to the Chief Minister TR Zeliang, NGRC-1 CU President, Seyiekuollie and Vice President, S. Bendang Jamir highlighted that many genuine contractors who are legally entitled to their payment have been “victimized” for not being paid their bills in time in violation of the provisions of NPWD and CPWD Code and even breaching contract agreements.
“The NGRC-1 CU could detect through RTI documents so much of irregularity and violation of all ethics of technicality such as diversion of funds and wrongly (keeping) the funds meant for payment in civil deposit (CD) and the PIO of Finance Department at the Secretariat purposely furnished incomplete documents by excluding the other side of the page where certain percentages are deducted,” the statement said.
However, the union said, it is still working on the RTI documents as to how much the deducted percentages of money from the contract/ projects works reach the State revenue. NGRC-1 CU further questioned why the State government illegally kept the project money meant for payment in civil deposit for a long duration.
