Tara Sundas demand completion of road

CPI(M)  zonal secretary Tara Sundas has send a memorandum to the principal  secretary public work department kolkatta to interfere in the in  completion of the road under RIDF  .sundas today told that the 5 crore  62 lakh rupess was sanctioned for building the road of upper reshi road  via dr.graham road conncting algarah a stretch of 9 km but the work has  not been done properly.he also alleged that the work was done under the  supervision of PWD kalimpong but the first three km road is to some  extent in a good shape but the rest 6 km road is in very bad shape as  path holes have appeared in it.these hurdles and path holes in such a  small span of time has raised big question on the work done by PWD said  Tara .As the rainy season is coming near and near tara has demanded the  principal secretary that the irregularities done by the local pwd  department is giving sleep less nights to the people residing in the  area as such the party has demanded that futher action of maintanance  and completion of road must be carry as soon as possible.he also alleged  that as long as the work is in the hand of local department officer it  will never be completed so sundas has demended to hand over the work to  kalimpong engineering department for its proper mainatance.he aslo have  demanded to the secretary to immediate transfer the department to GTA as  it is a transfer subject to GTA .he have send the copy of memorandum to  the PWD secretary along with GTA chief Bimal Gurung and DM  Darjeeling.On the allegation made by sundas on the pwd officer the  assistant engineer of the department subhod chettri has said that the  all the blame is wrong he said that the 9 km work has not been completed  and how can he put a blame on a work which is not finished ?he said  that due to lack of material  the work has been temporarily suspended  but will restart as soon as the material comes.

Mukesh Sharma