THE Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Company has blacklisted as many as 11 contractors, holding them chargeable for poor high quality of improvement works they have been tasked with. They’ve been blacklisted for one yr that means they gained’t get any civic works for that length.
”These 11 contractors had undertaken 14 completely different works. We have now discovered that the works they carried out have been less than the requirements set. Due to this fact, they’ve been put within the blacklist,” mentioned PCMC Metropolis Engineer Makrand Nikam, including, “we are going to recuperate double the quantity from them for the poor high quality of labor.”
The civic administration had sensed one thing amiss after it discovered that these contractors had agreed to tenders at 40-45 per cent beneath the quoted charge. This aroused doubts within the minds of the officers as as to if these contractors would have the ability to perform high quality work. Consequently, Municipal Commissioner Shekhar Singh ordered an inspection of the standard of works.
The inspection was carried out by a workforce from School Of Engineering Pune (COEP). The workforce discovered paving blocks which had sunk in, new roads creating potholes, use of skinny concrete layers and jogging tracks with insufficient quantities of sand. The workforce discovered that a lot of the works weren’t accomplished as per the tender situations.
After the workforce submitted its report, the PCMC chief had issued a show-cause discover to the contractors. Nevertheless, the administration didn’t obtain a passable reply from a single contractor. On Monday, the PCMC administration put them in black-list for a interval of 1 yr.
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