Team Herald
PANJIM: Ridiculing the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant’s statement to blacklist contractors for dilapidated condition of roads across the State, the Opposition Congress on Wednesday demanded that Sawant should make the PWD engineers accountable to fix responsibility on the contractors for the pathetic condition of the roads.
Inefficient officers needs to be sent home. There is no need to appoint Engineers India Ltd or any external agency to assess the condition of the roads across the State and to give recommendations. It is a sheer waste of time and money, said Aldona MLA Adv Carlos Alvares Ferreira.
Adv Ferreira demanded that the PWD Principal Chief Engineer Uttam Parsekar, who is being given extension after extension needs to be relieved for his inefficiency in handling the Department and for presiding over the current state of affairs in the State. He needs to be packed off. Rot which commences from the top, needs to be stemmed; not by taking action against some low level clerk or peon but strike needs to be at the top. “It you roll the head of the PWD principal chief engineer, everybody will fall in line,” he said.
The Congress MLA further called upon the Chief Minister to immediately relieve the PWD principal chief engineer and to ensure that promotions are made timely and properly for those deserving engineers so that the department will work happily and stop corruption.