Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 6: The Government of Jammu and Kashmir today re-constituted the Standing Committee to assess the proposals for administrative approval to the revised cost of projects.
Headed by Principal Secretary, Housing & Urban Development Department, the seven-member Standing Committee shall assess the reasons for time and cost over-run against the pre-defined parameters so as to reduce the scope for discretion and open ended cost and time escalation.
It shall undertake detailed examination of the basis/reasons for cost and time over-runs before recommending the accord of administrative approval to the revised cost of projects valuing above a given threshold to ensure an element of structured accountability in project implementation and fix responsibility of the concerned officers in every case, in which the over-runs are not justified.
Administrative Secretaries of PWD, PDD, Jal Shakti, Planning Development & Monitoring Department and Development Commissioner, Works are Members of the Standing Committee, Administrative Secretary of the concerned department shall be the Member Secretary.
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