By the end of the extended period, the progress was only 84.5 percent
The parliament building is being constructed in an area of 172 ropani on one side of the Sinha Darbar complex. All the ministries from the office of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers are around here. From the prime minister to the minister, they are going back and forth day by day. Since the buildings of up to five floors have been destroyed, the eyes of the concerned bodies hardly reach the Parliament building under construction.
From the President to the Speaker of the House, the Speaker of the National Assembly, the Prime Minister and other bodies are inspecting and monitoring from time to time.
Deputy Prime Minister and Urban Development Minister Prakashman Singh has been giving instructions to complete the work quickly ever since he became the minister. But neither the work was completed nor the speed of the work increased. The construction site of the Parliament building is now only a place for special people to campaign for monitoring.
, which has been added for the fourth time, is expiring on Chait 18. But overall work progress is only 84.5 percent. Workers are rarely seen at the construction site. 12 buildings have been built, the finishing work to be done inside them has not been completed yet. Finishing work has not been started in some buildings. In front of the building, a space has been allocated for the construction of a garden, but the work has not started. Somewhere the work of placing a trust is going on. The road leading to the building has not been completed.
After the House of Representatives election of 2079, its construction was started with the goal of holding the first parliament meeting in the new building. The contract was signed on October 16, 2076 saying that it could be built by October 16, 2079. After the work was not completed according to the initial agreement, the deadline was extended for the first time till 30 Chait 2079, but the work was not completed.
was given time for the second time from 2080 Baisakh 1 to 2080 Oct 19. Although the deadline was extended for the third time from October 20, 2080 to March 19 of the same year, the pace of work did not increase. After the work was not completed during this period, the deadline was extended for the fourth time from 2080 Chait 20 to 2081 Chait 18, but the work is not yet finished.
The initial contract amount of the Parliament building is 5 billion 683 million 39 million. Now it has been revised to 6 billion 30 million rupees. The contract of which was taken by Tundi-Sec JV. The House of Representatives, the National Assembly, the Common Law, the office building of highly distinguished persons, the office building of the parliamentary party, the building of the parliamentary committee, the building of the parliamentary secretariat and other structures have been completed, according to the special building project coordination office.
450 four-wheelers and 800 two-wheelers can be parked and a building for security personnel has also been constructed. The finishing work has not picked up pace. The government agencies are blaming the builders and the builders are blaming the government for the delay. Suman Subedi, managing director of Tundi Construction, claims that the construction was delayed because the government did not provide the site on time.
According to the initial agreement, three years were given. But only 40% of the site was made available for one and a half years, so we could not work at full capacity,' he said, 'again due to Covid-19, it was difficult to work regularly.' is
Former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, while visiting the under-construction Parliament building, made a secretary-level decision saying that the problem would be solved within three days, but Subedi says that it was not implemented. "Even now, there is a delay in decision-making by the government agency," he said, "the finishing work is being done, the goods are coming from India, the procurement process is delayed by the contracting agency, which has an impact on the overall project." He said that the problem is getting worse.
Parliament does not have its own separate building. The House of Representatives and the National Assembly have been run by renting the building of the International Conference Center at New Baneshwar. The government is paying Rs 15 crore per annum to the International Conference Center Development Committee for the building rented to run both the houses. If the parliament building is completed soon, the government will not have to bear the financial burden.
The first parliament meeting after the 2084 House of Representatives election was held in the new building, but there is a doubt that all the work will be completed within that time as the pace of work is slow. Buddhisagar Thapa, team leader of the consulting company EWES-DINICON-INGER JV said that the construction is being delayed due to the builders.
'The government agencies are providing support. However, construction workers are not increasing the speed of work. This is something that the agency that takes the contract has also realized," he said. "There are not enough workers at the construction site. We are trying to complete the work quickly, we have also written a letter to the builders. The project office claims that even though the construction and interior contracts were not awarded at the same time, not all the work has been done.
KC-Shyamsundar-Baniyan JV has taken the interior contract for 2 billion 34 crore 54 lakh rupees. The contract was signed in June 2080 to complete the work by June 2081. But after the work could not be completed within the specified time, its deadline has been extended till Chait 16. Its progress so far is only 25 percent. As the work has to be brought from India, the work cannot be completed even within that time. Ranjan Kumar Das, Information Officer and Senior Divisional Engineer of the Special Building Project said that apart from building construction, the interior contract is separate.
"In some buildings, all that is left is to bring goods from India and install them," Das said, "After the goods are installed, some work can be completed." He said that workers were rarely seen at the construction site. Das said that the area is huge and a lot of finishing work is left. "The work is being done so that it can be done till Chait 18, 2081," he said.
