Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 3: Jammu Kashmir Contractors Coordination Committee, Chairman Ghulam Jeelani Purza, has urged the government to conduct a high-level inquiry into the lapse of funds and to find out the reasons behind it.
Talking to media-persons Jeelani further stressed on the issue of paying the pending bills of the contractors, while 345 contractors have been blacklisted and this should be revised so that the families of these contractors are not forced to starve.
Purza informed about the problems of contractors during conference. He said that this year’s funds lapsed and blamed the government officials in the matter, saying that government employees were responsible for the fund lapses, which should be investigated at a higher level.
He said since the year 2019, it has been seen that funds are being provided by the government on time so that there will be no disruption in the construction activities. However, these funds are not provided to the DDOs on time and the funds remained withheld in the departments for no reason. These are provided to the DDOs in the last days of March. This has actually resulted in the lapse of funds.
He has appealed to the LG administration that there should be a high-level probe into the issue of lapse of funds and responsibility should be fixed on the concerned officers.
JKCCC Chairman further said that the government had promised us that the money of all the contractors would be released, but their bills have not been cleared as yet. The money of the contractors is stuck in R&B, PHE and other departments. “Unfortunately, for the last three years, we have been running around government institutions. Our bills are pending for the year 2017 and 2018. The issue must be settled immediately,” he added.
Purza further said that 345 contractors were blacklisted whose NOC remained uncleared and they have been asked to get verification from CID and bring NOC from police. He said that if the contractors are harassed in the name of NOC, their families will be forced to starve.
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