The Panaji Smart City Development Limited (IPSCDL) officials are now trying to wriggle out of the mess they have created in the city by claiming that they did not have the old plans of utility lines laid beneath the roads.
The IPSCDL should have embarked on their works only after having done proper groundwork. They proceeded in haste and made a mess of the whole city.
The works should have been done in a phased manner after ascertaining all the ground realities and not digging the whole city and inconveniencing the citizens and especially the elderly who have been inhaling enormous dust for the last few months and moving on perilous roads.
We can all see that the works being carried out are so shoddy and extremely substandard. The contractors need to be blacklisted. Also, the IPSCDL officials cannot be allowed to go scot free. Rightly there is apprehension that the city will be in a worse state than it was with all these unsmart works being carried out to wilfully empty the state coffers. We will have to wait for the monsoons to set in to see the real state of Panaji.
The abdication of responsibility and accountability is unacceptable and tragically does not bode well for the continuing colossal damage to the infrastructure of Panaji during the monsoons because of these incompetent inefficient and clueless works.
