Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 10: JKPCC Piece Workers and Contractors Joint Front claimed huge liabilities due for different Government works completed by them in J&K.
In a press conference here today Rakesh Jalali, Front president for Jammu province said delegation of the Front met the MD of the Corporation, Vikas Kundal for eight times in the last three months demanding immediate release of the payments for all the completed and ongoing projects in J&K but nothing fruitful emerged.
He claimed payments worth Rs 50 crore are held up for the last several years and with the e-tendering initiated two years back by JKPCC in erstwhile J&K State the liability graph rose to the peak pushing the contractors to deep crises as they have to pay hefty sums as bank interest.
Jalali told reporters that projects are delayed mainly because of non availability of funds with all the DGMs of concerned units/divisions or too much of time delay in transfer of funds from head office to all the respective units/divisions despite the fact funds are sufficiently available.
“In certain cases release of funds are not followed up by JKPCC with their project authorities (clients),” he said claiming total mess in the functioning of entire JKPCC.
He informed that JKPCC has also started floating composite tenders thus hitting badly the livelihood of some 2500 small piece workers and contractors.
“All JKPCC empanelled piece workers (small contractors) were all of a sudden restricted from participating in e-tender bidding from the last about 8 months,” Jalali informed.
“JKPCC has in past made a Fixed Deposit (FDR) for about Rs 200 crore. MD JKPCC should en-cash a small amount say 5 to 10 per cent of the FDR to clear the liabilities of contractors,” he maintained.
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