Jammu Akhnoor Road Widening Project
Rs 15 Crore Penalty Imposed on Contractor Company for Inordinate
Delay
Jammu, 02/June/2023:
On failing to meet deadline for completion of its allotted work under Jammu
Akhnoor Road Widening Project, the contractor firm has been slapped with a
penalty of over Rs 15.00 crore by the government.
In response to an
application by RTI Activist Raman Sharma
under Right to Information Act,
National Highways and Infrastructure
Development Corporation Ltd(NHIDCL) vide
its official communication dated 31-05-2023 has informed that a penalty of Rs
15.79 Crore ( rupees fifteen hundred and Seventy lac) has been imposed against
the contractor Company namely M/S Tarmat
Ltd. for the delay in completion of its work within stipulated period of time.
The RTI reply served
to information seeker Sharma and signed by SPS Sangwan, General Manager(P),
NHIDCL, Akhnoor further informs that the stipulated completion date( under
package-III) was fixed as 23/12/2021
which was later extended till 30/03/2023
and despite the extension of 163 days the contractor company failed to meet the
deadline and now again a new deadline has been fixed as 31/12/2023.
M/S Tarmat Ltd
Company has been awarded tender work under package-III ( from Km 06.000 to Km 26.350) of
Jammu Akhnoor Road Widening Project with bid amount of Rs 193.99 Crore.
An Amount of Rs
131.05 Crore has been released to
company till date with 71.86 % Physical Progress of Work and 67.56 % Financial
Progress.
In response to the
query related to penalty amount so far submitted by the firm , the NHIDCL reply
stated that till date an amount of Rs 5.5 Crore has been withheld from the
bills of the Contractor Company on the amount of penalty.
The overall final
date for completion of this important Jammu Akhnoor Road Widening project has
been fixed as 13/03/2025.
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