Timelines for construction of transit spaces of Package Employees violated constantly

BARAMULLA, March 20: Former MLC & JK UT spokesperson of BJP Girdhari Lal Raina rued recurrent violation of timelines set for completion of construction work of transit accommodation for PM Package Employees. Taking serious note of published news  reporting just half of the 320 flats at the colony for migrant Kashmiri Pandit employees of the Prime Minister’s Package in Baramulla district has been completed, GL Raina said ground reports suggest even this is not true as boundary wall and internal road work is yet to begin.

Recalling repeated assertion of UT administration during the year 2022 that dates set for completion of construction work at Shopian were March 2022 and at Baramulla and Bandipora by November 2022 is nowhere to be met even in March 2023.

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha during a review meeting had also directed officials to take proactive steps to prepare for preponing the targeted timeframe for completion of the on-going construction works. Timelines need to be adhered to for the completion of construction work of transit accommodations. “Any official found responsible for delays should be taken to task,” the Lt Governor had said- recalled Former MLC.

Leave alone advancing dates of completion, work is nowhere near completion even on readjusted dates, regretted BJP spokesperson. EX-MLC painfully reminded that the two-member committee which was tasked to inquire about ‘delay’ in construction of transit accommodation in District Ganderbal has had no effect.

Explaining the fact that Transit accommodation approved for employees recruited under PM Package does not include other vulnerable employees who were recruited before or after PM’s Package and under all reserved categories , GL Raina said that all these employees are vulnerable and need protected accommodation. He appealed to LG Manoj Sinha to look into the matter and take promised action against officials responsible for delays.

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