Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 30: Questioning the government’s announcement to open the doors of construction and development in the valley, contractors today said that the pending liabilities were not paid even at the end of the financial year.
Addressing a press conference here at his office in Srinagar, Farooq Ahmad Dar, general secretary of the Central Contractors Coordination Committee expressed his anguish while stating that the government had forgotten contractors even at the end of the financial year after the budget.
He said that even during Covid 19 period, contractors risked their lives to carry out emergency work, but the government forgot them.
Dar said that the former advisor KK Sharma had asked all the Chief Engineers for a list and details of general liabilities, however, it is learned that few Chief Engineers saw only macadamization and nothing else on the ground.
“While Rs 900 crore was reportedly released on macadimization, others were forgotten,” he said.
General Secretary of the JKCCCC, who is also the co-chairman of the Kashmir Economic Alliance said that the engineers who have done injustice with small contractors would be exposed.
Meanwhile, Dar also expressed concern over the unavailability of construction materials and the alarming increase adding that the ban on mining should be lifted immediately.
He said that due to the non-availability of materials, construction of residential houses by the common poor has become a dream while work on government projects has been slow.
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