If you are all set to witness Aero India 2011 in Yelahanka Air Force station, be prepared to leave home early. You might also make the most of your vehicle’s power steering and four-wheel drive, while getting there.
If you are all set to witness Aero India 2011 in Yelahanka Air Force station, be prepared to leave home early. You might also make the most of your vehicle’s power steering and four-wheel drive, while getting there. Despite being newly paved, roads (those apart from Bellary Road) leading to the venue reflect poor quality of work.
On February 2, BBMP engineers inspected the progress of road construction and found that it was lack lustre. The officials have written a letter to the commissioner highlighting the inadequacies in the work executed by the Karnataka Rural Infrastructure Development Ltd (KRIDL). On January 17, KRIDL began asphalting on the 7.5-km Nitte Meenakshi College-Doddaballapur Road on NH 7, 7.2-km Rajanukunte Road-Doddaballapur Road (via MVIT Road) and 6.2-km link to Nitte Meenakshi Road.
The team found that drains between Bellary Road to Gantiganahalli Cross, and Gantiganahalli to Rajanukunte were filled with mud. The berm on edges of the road has been increased, as a result of which water cannot drain out easily. They also found that the road surface was uneven. Even though the Aero India’s schedule was decided a year ago, the state government began to focus on the event recently.
“The chief secretary called a meeting of all the government agencies on January 10 and an order was issued to relay the road before the show’s commencement. The order was passed under Section 4G of the Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurements Act, 1999, as emergency work. As there was no time for calling for tenders, the BBMP assigned the work to KRIDL,” said KT Nagaraj, BBMP superintendent engineer. Nagraj added that 80 per cent of the work has been completed.
However, BBMP sources said the government deliberately delayed the work. “This work has no cost estimation. The work was delayed because had the government called for the construction tender months earlier, private contractors would have participated and given a cheaper work estimate. In order to help a few contractors, the work was delayed and undertaken as emergency work. This way, the contractor who would get the work would get 10 per cent more from the tender amount as service charge. So, at the last moment, the government gave the work to KRIDL despite knowing that it had no manpower and equipment.
Thus, KRIDL would give a sub-contract to select private contractors,” said a source.
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