Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 26: Contractors’ Association, PWD (R&B) Department today urged the Government to defer introduction of Pay and Accounts System (PAS) to April 1.
The issue was discussed threadbare in a meeting of the association, which was attended by various contractors including Joy Khokhar, general secretary, Contraction Association, PWD (R&B), Jammu, and Vinod Kohli, general secretary, Contractors’ Association & Hot Mix Plant Holders, Jammu province.
The speakers said that they welcome the decision of the State Government for making the payment to the contractors via Pay and Accounts System for which a pilot project has been started in PHE, Irrigation, F/C and R&B Departments with effect from 15-02-2018.
“Though it is a revolutionary system but the Government staff on ground is not well versed with it and with its introduction teething problems are expected”, they said and requested the Government to defer this system of payment to April 1, so that it does not operate harshly against the financial interest of the working contractors and before March 31, all the work done payment of the contractors, which is in crores, may be released in toto.
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