ITANAGAR, Dec 3: “It will be the collective responsibility of all if our commitment of building 1600 kms stretch of rural roads in the state is not achieved by this financial year,” asserted Minister Bamang Felix while chairing a two day review meeting of Rural Works Department on PMGSY starting today.
Exhorting the department officers to tighten their belts, the Minister said that the state today demands sincere and hardworking officers who would genuinely deliver for the good of the people. Rural roads being one of the most vital communication means, the department needs to work with renewed energy to ensure that the road reaches to the last village of the state, Felix added.
The Union Government has recently sanctioned 5025 kms of PMGSY roads with a cost of Rs. 3837 crore. He directed the concerned officers to finish the NIT and the process of awarding works within the month of January so that there is no further delay in execution of critical border and rural roads.
“The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) implementation has to be accelerated to accrue the benefit to the remotely located habitations for overall socio-economic development of the State. The rural roads contribute significantly to the GDP of the State and therefore all the roads have to be constructed with good quality,” added Felix.
The physical progress, achievement, contract management, new technology, District Rural Road Plan for PMGSY-II and quality issues are being covered in the two-day meeting. Interaction with contractors and contracting agencies will also be convened on the 2nd day to know the problems being encountered in the field and their input will be useful for achieving the target and fast execution of this flagship programme to achieve connectivity by March, 2019, the deadline fixed by the Government of India.
All the field engineers from Junior Engineers to Chief Engineers are participating in this review meeting to address various administrative and field issues. Among others, Higio Tala, Deputy Secretary, RWD, K Tabiyo and D Nyodu, Chief Engineers, T Paktung, State Quality Coordinator, N Rigia, IT Nodal Officer and KC Dhimole, Technical Advisor are reviewing the progress and assessing the issues and challenges. 

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