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The Uttar Pradesh Rajkiya Nirman Nigam (UPRNN) was on Wednesday back in news after Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Radha Raturi asked it to refund the payments made for the substandard works done in IIT buildings in the hill state.
“The Chief Secretary has directed (the concerned officials) to issue notices to UPRNN in the case of incomplete and substandard construction work of ITI buildings. The CS has given strict instructions to issue notice for refund of payment due to incomplete and substandard construction works and to register FIR against UPRNN in case of non-compliance of the notice,” an official statement said.
Presiding over the meeting of Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) regarding the outer protection works in ITI Narsan (Haridwar), Raturi while approving the project cost of Rs 187.30 lakh, has instructed the Uttarakhand Payjal Nigam to pay special attention to quality control in the construction works of the project.
In view of the safety of the students studying in ITI, Raturi has instructed to start the construction work after getting the technical test of this project done within 10 days. She has instructed to complete the construction works before the next monsoon season and ensure the safety of the ITI campus.
The UPRNN was in news in 2017 after the state government decided to ban it for allegedly carrying out substandard works in the state. However, after the death of the state parliamentary minister Prakash Pant, the matter to blacklist UPRNN was put on the backburner.
“When Pant ji was minister in the government, he was very angry over the previous Congress government for awarding lots of contracts to the UPRNN. But after his death, the UPRNN again started thriving in the state,” a top government official said.