Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma while holding a meeting at PWD Convention Centre in Guwahati with the executive engineers of the PWD (Roads) on Thursday (July 22) reviewed the progress of the construction works of the flyovers being constructed at Dispur, Maligaon, and Sarabhati in the city.
The Chief Minister also discussed about the proposed flyovers to be constructed from Chandmari to Noonmati and Rajgarh to Bhangagarh. He asked PWD Commissioner Rajesh Kemprai to study the feasibility and prepare a report for the projects to take their logical conclusion.
CM Sarma also reviewed the progress of different schemes being implemented across the state, directed the officers to ensure time-bound completion of all the ongoing projects to avoid cost escalation.
Taking stock of the progress of the scheme related works of all the PWD divisions of the state, CM Sarma said that since roads reflect the quality of development of any state as people gauge the level of development by the quality of roads, he asked the engineers to accord top priority for the completion of the roads to avoid cost over-run.
Taking review of the implementation of PMGSY roads, CM Sarma asked the Engineers to complete the construction of the roads on a war footing to ensure that the fruits of development reach the grass root level people at a fast pace.
He also took stock of the progress of the works under Central Roads and Infrastructure Funds (CRIF), SOPD, Rural Infrastructure Development Funds (RIDF) etc.
During the meeting, some project-specific issues were flagged by the engineers as the Chief Minister helped them to resolve the issues to ensure expeditious competition of the scheme-related works.
The Chief Minister also took stock of the works of the proposed elevated corridor at the NH 37 stretch of Kaziranga National Park.
With regard to signature project, Chief Minister Sarma emphasized on the need of early and qualitative completion of all the roads under the project. He also asked Commissioner PWD (Roads) Kemprai to constitute a three member committee to assess the quality of constructions of the roads and rank them as per the superiority.
He further asked the PWD to work in synergy with Railways and resolve all issues coming in the way of construction activities of roads and flyovers.
Commissioner and Special Secretary PWD (Roads) Rajesh Kemprai, Chief Engineer and Additional Chief Engineers, superintendent engineers, and executive engineers of PWD were also present at the meeting.
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