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MARGAO
The Shadow Council for Margao on Wednesday demanded stringent action against the contactor involved in the execution of alleged substandard work for the construction of the nullah along the Eastern bypass road, near Gujarati Samaj School.
Addressing the media, the SCM informed that through the water resources department, a work of “Improvement and development of existing nallah along Eastern bypass from Gujarati Samaj School to Supreme Park at Aquem Margao” is in progress.
SCM convenor Savio Coutinho told the media that SCM started monitoring and verifying the execution of work after citizens from Margao informed saying that the execution of the said work was being done by using low-quality materials and of very substandard nature.
Having confirmed the substandard nature of the materials on February 27, 2020, the SCM exposed the same and stopped the said work. The engineers concerned were called to the site and cube samples of the concrete mix were collected. While two samples were collected in the presence of SCM members, the third sample was collected subsequently, Coutinho stated.
He demanded that the department should order a probe into the entire work and initiate stringent action against the contactor having confirmed that the work executed is of poor quality.
