CEC, Hill Council, Kargil Feroz Ahmad Khan discussed various measures to redress the issues being faced by the Contractors Association, Kargil on December 19.
 
Concerned officers and the members of the Contractor Association were present in the meeting.  
 
EC Works, Mubarak Shah Nagvi; Superintending Engineer (SE) PWD Kargil; Er Ved Prakash, Executive Engineers of R&B-II, I&FC, REW, PHE, SVD Sankoo, PMGSY, PWD Zanskar, and Mechanical Division, President and other representatives of the Contractors’ Association Kargil besides other concerned officers attended the meeting.
 
Discussion on various issues including the clearance of the pending liabilities, Technical Sanction (TS), and Accord of Administrative Approval (AAA) besides other issues, and decisions were taken accordingly.
 
Concerning the issues related to the clearance of pending liabilities, CEC directed the Superintending Engineer PWD to submit the list of all work done liabilities by 19 December 2020 afternoon.
 
To ease the problems related to TS and AAA for which the contractors stated that they have to travel frequently to Leh, CEC Khan instructed the SE PWD to constitute a separate team of engineers which will be stationed at the office of the Chief Engineer Hydraulics HQ Kargil. The team would be responsible for verification of all TS and AAA related documentation and the respective Executive Engineers and AEEs would ensure timely clearance by pursuing the cases with the UT Administration Ladakh.
 
Feroz Khan instructed the concerned engineers to keep into active consideration all ground realities during the preparation of work done estimates and gave directions to the SE PWD Kargil to issue a circular within 2 to 3 days stating therein that on spot visit of the site of any work would be mandatory during the preparation of the project estimates.
 
Concerned engineers were asked that the work done estimates should be inclusive of all taxes, adding that the AEE and JE would be responsible for any discrepancy found therein.
 
He also asked the Contractor Association to abstain from the practice of taking works in hand on a very low bid and quit works mid-way thereby creating hurdles in the developmental process. In this regard, he gave directions to the departments concerned to take strict action against the defaulter contractors and even blacklist them if the need arises.
 
Mechanical Division Kargil and KREDA were asked to take the necessary steps to shift their tenders from the J&K Portal to the Ladakh portal at the earliest and intimate the action taken report to the CEC Office within two days. 
 
SE PWD to ensure implementation of the Central Government rules with regards to Performance Security and Earnest Money. He was further instructed to ensure that proper SMSs are received by all the participants after registration on the portal.