Minister Ghising has directed to immediately proceed with a new tender process after assessing the remaining work of the canceled contracts and the budget required to complete the construction.
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Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Physical Infrastructure, Transport and Urban Development Kulman Ghising has directed to immediately initiate a new tender process to ensure the construction of road projects whose contracts have been terminated.
At the first-quarter progress review and ministerial-level development problem resolution committee meeting of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport for the current fiscal year 2082/083 on Friday, Minister Ghising said that the remaining work of the canceled contracts and the budget required to complete the construction should be measured and a new tender process should be immediately taken forward.
43 contracts for the construction of roads and bridges that had been abandoned for years after taking contracts under the Roads Department have been canceled. The total amount of the 43 contracts is 2.97 billion 7.9 million rupees.
Stating that there is no problem at present as the resources for the canceled projects have already been managed, and if a problem is found, necessary initiatives and facilitation will be taken with the Ministry of Finance, Minister Ghising said that the confusion seen in the multi-year agreement on bridge construction will be removed .
‘There have been many problems in bridge construction in Terai-Madhesh, many bridges are abandoned, the same amount of work can be done on roads after a fixed budget is allocated, but it is not possible to do so on bridges, he said, so we have to go through a multi-year process.’
He said that the progress of the bodies under the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport was seen to be low in the first quarter of the current fiscal year and now it needs to be improved in the coming months.
‘Budget stoppage may be one reason, but even projects run with foreign aid, which do not have budget problems, are progressing poorly. It is necessary to solve the problems seen and improve the construction progress, let us all take the initiative in this,’ he said.
Secretary of the Ministry Keshav Kumar Sharma said that the quarterly progress was not encouraging and that the process of managing the projects whose contracts were terminated should not be left abandoned and should be taken forward immediately.
An amount of Rs 151.75 billion has been allocated for the bodies under the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport in the current fiscal year. Of that, Rs 48.52 billion has been allocated for the first quarter. Of the amount allocated for the first quarter, only Rs 11.64 billion has been spent. Which is annual and quarterly
plan selection, prioritization and budget allocation, national pride projects, as the jurisdiction of the road has not yet been determined (not published in the Gazette), frequent local obstacles in the construction work, confusion in the management of broken contracts and the implementation of contract agreements, etc. were presented by the ministry.
