Hyderabad: Contractors who are constructing bus bays under the 100-day plan are putting pressure on the GHMC to release their bills even though the work in many places is incomplete.
Under the guidelines mentioned in the tender, the platform of a bus bay must be 28 feet in length and five feet wide, with flooring on the platform, road development along the bus bay and installation of dividers.
The GHMC has allocated Rs 5.02 lakh for the construction of each bus bay and also sufficient land for the purpose. Civic officials claim that 50 of the 100 bus bays to be constructed are completed. This is not borne out by an inspection of the sites.
Work is still incomplete at most, such as the two bus bays in Qutbullapur circle at the Jeedimetla traffic police station and at Suraram near Malla Reddy Hospital.
Here, the length and width of the bus bays do not meet the specifications mentioned in the tender agreement, and no dividers have been installed.
Yet, engineers at the GHMC’s head office have received letters from local officials stating that the work has been completed and payment must be released to the concerned contractors.
GHMC Commissioner B Janardhan Reddy has said that only after checking the quality of the work will the civic body release payment. “Until and unless we get the ground report from our officials of the engineering section, we won’t release a single penny to the contractors,” he said.
