Floods affect project,
revision of design underway: Govt
3/25/2015
Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 24: In the case
of development of Jammu, successive governments in the state have preferred
lame excuses instead of materialising the undertaken projects. In the similar
manner, the prestigious ropeway project has been hanging in balance.
The Ropeway Project was
severely affected by the floods in September 2014 and is likely to face
unexpected delay in compilation.
This was informed by the
government in the Upper House of state legislature in a written reply to a
question of MLC Ajay Kumar Sadhotra. In his question, he had sought to know the
status report of Bahu Fort Aerial Ropeway project.
"The ropeway project
comprises two phases, first phase from Peerkho to Mahamaya Park and Phases II
from Mahamaya Park to Shahabad. The contract of the project has been signed
with M/s Damodar Ropeway and Infra Ltd Calcutta, who are in technical
collaboration with STM Turkey and also M/s RITES (a Government of India
Undertaking) have been engaged as Project management Consultants, "replied
by Tourism Department.
The work on Phase II was
to start at Shahabad by same Company on September 13, 2014 but the local
private land owner didn't allow the execution of the work due to non-payment of
compensation of land. The matter has been taken up with Deputy Comissioner
Jammu with whom Rs 802.82 lakh as cost of the land has been deposited.
The data furnished by
Tourism department claimed that the corporation is in the process of opening of
letter of credit for Rs 13.50 cr in favour of M/s STM Turkey of M/s Damodar
Ropeway and Infra design part. It further revealed that some areas of first
phase of the project were severely affected by the floods which has
necessitated redesigning of the design of the phase first and the work on
revision of designs finalization is underway.
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