Administrative Council decision to merge engineering wings illogical

 Central Contractors Coordination Committee(JKCCCC) has demanded the government to reconsider the decision of merging and submerging of engineering wings of more than a dozen government departments by the Administrative council for development works and projects. Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, Farooq Ahmed Dar, General Secretary, Central Contractors Coordination Committee, said that the administration headed by former Lieutenant Governor GC Mormo should clear the liabilities of these engineering wings before taking any step.

"Administrative council on Wednesday directed the engineering wings of more than a dozen departments, including education, higher and technical education, estates, tourism, agriculture production, computer science vs computer programming, animal husbandry and fisheries and others to merge and submerge them with the Public Works Department under one roof ,and this decision is illogical" ,Dar said.

He said that there is already a heavy burden on the R&B Department and now with these engineering wings being attached to it, There will be an additional burden, which will result in construction work Where the pace of projects slows down. Dar advised the government to set up a joint construction department for these departments, which could lead to accountability, speeding the processes of construction and stopping the lapse of funds. He also said that these departments have dues amounting to crores of rupees, which have not yet been paid to the contractors. Dar questioned who will pay these dues when the engineering departments merge?.