PANAJI
Imagine Panaji Smart City Development Limited (IPSCDL) managing director and CEO, Sanjit Rodrigues, IAS said a major sewage pipeline laying project along the Ourem creek road could not be taken up as the tendering process by the PWD failed to attract a suitable contractor on three occasions.
"Since concretizing this road without completing the sewage work would result in digging, this 1.4 kilometre stretch will not be taken up for concreting," Rodrigues said.
The IPSCDL had originally embarked on concreting into 'smart roads' four stretches at a total cost of Rs 120 crore -- In St Inez from the Taj Vivanta (Sotree) junction to the Goa International Hotel at Tonca; Bal Bhavan to the Madhuban Complex via the Caculo Mall junction; An internal stretch between Tonca junction at the western end of the St Inez Catholic cemetery to the Madhuban Complex via the crematorium and this 1.4-km stretch along the Rua de Ourem creek from the Old Patto bridge right up to the Four Pillars junction past Neuginagar.
Goa State Urban Development Agency (GSUDA) was entrusted to execute the project and the tender was won by Bagkiya Constructions Pvt Ltd.
