MARGAO
Shadow Council for Margao has questioned the works department’s like the PWD, WRD, GSUDA, GSIDC, for not making it mandatory for the contractors of the respective departments to display a board giving the details of the tender under which the works are executed.
SCM convenor Savio Coutinho pointed out that Margao has been witnessing a series of launching ceremonies by breaking of the sacred coconut. He, however, said there seems to be no transparency with regard to the works executed.
SCM convenor Savio Coutinho stated that as per the tender conditions it is mandatory for every contractor to display a board giving all the details of the contract, however neither does the contractor care to display such a board, nor do the concerned engineers ensure that the contractor does the same.
SCM also called upon the PWD Minister Nilesh Cabral to check upon the manner in which PWD invites tenders for laying hotmix carpet, construction of drains and providing of RCC slabs over existing drains. The tenders are absolutely vague and always titled as “laying hotmix carpet/ construction of drains/ providing of RCC slabs over existing drains at various places in Margao.”
