Patna, (Bihar Times): Even as the private firms engaged
in the road construction works in Bihar is getting
threatening call––and even getting killed––from the
ruling party MLAs the state government had asked the
two central government agencies to perform or quit.
The ultimatum has been served to IRCON and CPWD. They
have been asked to show result within two months or
get prepared to go. The two agencies have been asked
to construct 2035 kilometres of state highways.
While IRCON is working on 329 kms roads in Darbhanga,
Samastipur, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur and Vaishali the
CPWD is engaged in the construction of 1705 kms of
state highways in remaining districts of the state. It
is woking on 30 different projects.
According to the road construction minister, Nand
Kishore Yadav though these firms are to complete their
assigned job by December 2008 and March 2009 the pace
with which they are working clearly shows that they
would not complete it by the deadline. The minister
was in particular critical of IRCON, a subsidiary of
Indian Railways.
The warning to these two agencies is being interpreted
as a move to divert the attention from the killing of
a private firm employee engaged in the road
construction work in Siwan two days back. Similarly
Gammon India last week lodged a case against Janata
Dal (United) MLA, Neeraj Kumar Singh alias Babloo for
demanding extortion money.
