No compromise on quality of work, CM tells officials; Wants boards put up giving details of material used

No compromise on quality of work, CM tells officials

Wants boards put up giving details of material used

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Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal holds a meet at Badal village in Muktsar on Wednesday. Tribune photo

Archit Watts

Tribune News Service

Badal (Muktsar), December 23

Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today convened a meeting of all department heads in the district at his native Badal village and directed them to install boards in villages depicting the proper ratio of material being used for construction work so that people could keep a vigil on it.

Badal said no compromise would be made on the quality of the ongoing development works.

“There will be zero tolerance towards laxity or compromise in the quality of material being used for the development works. Further, the concerned officers will be made accountable for any sort of lapse in the quality of development works,” he added.

The Chief Minister also exhorted people to play a pro-active role in checking the quality of works being executed in their respective areas.

He also directed officers to ensure timely completion of ongoing works such as the construction of toilets, water works, streets in villages and laying of water supply pipes, so that people could be facilitated from these public works at the earliest.

“My government is committed to providing basic civic amenities in every nook and corner of the state with a focus to provide a toilet and water connection in all households within the next three years,” he said.

A number of development works completed in the past in his Lambi assembly segment have developed snags within a short time. Residents of Panniwala Fatta, Mann village have even sought a probe in the construction of waterworks in their villages. Similarly, the pathetic condition of the community hall at Gaggar village, located just next to Badal village, constructed a few years ago, has also raised questions over the utilisation of funds. The road leading to CM residence in Badal village too has caved in a number of times and that too just within a month of completion of the sewerage system.

Courtesy: The Tribune