Cg news: Old works of civic bodies will start again after approval

Raipur. In the urban bodies of the state, the works that have not been started in the financial year 2019-20 to 2023-24 can be started only after re-approval by the Urban Administration and Development Department in the current financial year. In urban bodies, approval will have to be taken again from the department to start the infrastructure items and uninitiated works approved under state sponsored schemes.

The Urban Administration and Development Department has issued a circular to the urban bodies in compliance with the instructions of the Finance Department to maintain financial discipline and economy in government expenditure. The department has asked to re-include the priority unstarted and canceled works in Municipal Corporations, Municipalities and Nagar Panchayats in the proposal for the year 2023-24 and send them to the Directorate or State Urban Development Agency (SUDA) for approval.

In a circular issued by the Urban Administration and Development Department to the Commissioners of all Municipal Corporations and Chief Municipal Officers of Municipalities and Nagar Panchayats, it has been said that the State Government has issued time-bound instructions regarding exercising economy in government expenditure. In this sequence, again instructions have been issued by the Finance Department from the point of view of financial discipline.

In the circular, all the urban bodies have been directed that from the date of issue of this circular, all the construction works funded from the state budget should be started only after the re-consent of the Finance Department. Under infrastructure items and state sponsored schemes, such works sanctioned in the financial year 2019-20 to 2023-24 which have not started are cancelled.

It has been said in the circular that if the unstarted or canceled works are in the priority of the concerned urban body, then such works will be re-included in the proposal for the current financial year 2023-24 and new proposals will be made item wise separately as per the guidelines issued by the department. Send the complete proposal to the Directorate or State Urban Development Agency.