: The panchayat raj department should henceforth install boards displaying details of the works, the budget estimates and the quality of the works executed with the department funds in rural areas. An instruction to this effect was given by Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, who handles the departments of panchayat raj and rural development. He pulled up the officials for the secrecy they maintained about the works being executed by the panchayat raj department.
Rules mandated the setting up of display boards in public places to inform the people about the development works in their region, he pointed out. The deputy CM chaired a review meeting with the panchayat raj and rural development, RWS and engineering department officials about the works they executed in the last five years. “Prepare comprehensive reports on the financial irregularities and diversion of funds committed by the previous government in the three departments,” he asked the officials.
He asked officials to strengthen the quality section to ensure quality to the works executed by the engineering wing of the panchayat raj department. Pawan Kalyan questioned the officials whether the contractors who were not completing the works on time and not ensuring quality are being blacklisted or not. Officials must submit to him the details of how works have been allotted and bills paid to the blacklisted contractors in the state, he said.
On learning that the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) had offered.