Better implementation, monitoring and evaluation of construction works will be done through the District Construction Committee
Ensuring quality and transparency in construction works in Naxal-affected areas is the highest priority – Chief Minister Shri Vishnu Deo Sai
Raipur, April 1, 2025/Under the leadership of Chief Minister Shri Vishnu Deo Sai, the state government has taken a decisive step by approving the formation of the “District Construction Committee” to ensure transparency and accountability in construction works in the Naxal-affected Sukma, Bijapur and Narayanpur districts.
Chief Minister Shri Sai has clearly stated that corruption will not be tolerated at any level. Ensuring quality and transparency in works carried out with public money in Naxal-affected areas will be the highest priority. In this context, an order regarding the formation of the District Construction Committee has been issued by the General Administration Department. This committee has been formed for better implementation, monitoring and evaluation of construction works. The District Collector will be the chairman of the committee. The Superintendent of Police of the district, CEO of Zilla Panchayat, DFO, Executive Engineer of Public Works Department, District Treasury Officer and the concerned district head officer of the work will be the members of the committee.
The area of operation of the District Construction Committee will be the entire revenue district.
Administrative approval of works will be issued by the competent authority as per the existing rules. The works to be carried out through the District Construction Committee will be determined by the District Collector. Such essential and unavoidable construction works, which cannot be completed due to non-availability of interested contractors even after inviting online tenders 3 times, will be carried out through the District Construction Committee. Instructions have been given to not carry out works through the District Construction Committee as far as possible in the blocks of the district which are not heavily Naxal-affected. In works to be carried out from local funds like DMF/CSR etc., the work agency like PWD/RES/PMGSY etc. should be appointed as the implementing agency first, and not the district construction agency. Only in a situation where these agencies are unable to perform the work, and no one participates in the tender for 3 consecutive times, the district construction agency can be made the implementing agency in the works to be carried out from local funds.
Works up to Rs 10.00 crore can be carried out through the committee. E-tenders will be invited for unavoidable and essential construction works to be carried out by the District Construction Committee. The District Construction Committee will be able to divide a work into two or more parts from the point of view of construction convenience, such as – if the work of road construction including bridge-culverts is approved, there will be an exemption to appoint a separate contractor for road work and a separate contractor for bridge-culverts. In the event of the road being long or the number of bridge-culverts being high, there will be an exemption to divide the road into two or more parts and also to appoint separate agencies for different bridge-culverts, but while dividing a work into small pieces, the committee will keep in mind that the quality of the work remains uniform as a whole and that there is equality in the cost price of the works carried out in different pieces. If the work is carried out in different pieces, it should be kept in mind that it should not be more than the rate of similar nature of work done by various departments in the district in the last three years.
The work of inspection, supervision and evaluation will be done by the Public Works Department or any competent technical officer determined by the Collector.
Transparency will get an institutional structure: Reasonableness and competitiveness of rates will be ensured
The tender accepting authority will satisfy itself about the reasonableness of the rates before accepting the tenders. The reasonableness of rates will be assessed mainly on the basis of fair rates; the tender accepting authority may refer to the rates of tenders of similar nature of works called within the period of last three months while deciding on the tenders. Similar works mean nature, quantity, specifications and