Rs 16’01 crores estimate for Nurmahal school building sent to finance department; Director
Dilbag Singh
Rs 16’01 crores estimate for Nurmahal school building sent to finance department; Director
NURMAHAL. 28 MAY
The Punjab State Human Rights Commission
(PSHRC) has said in its order that a report has been received from the Director of School Education (Secondary), Punjab, stating that rough estimates of completing the incomplete building of Government Senior Secondary School Nurmahal, which amounts to Rs 16.01 Crore, and the same has been passed to Finance Department, Punjab for approval. It said that after the approval of the construction work of the school will be initiated.
PSHRC chairperson Justice Sant Parkash was hearing a complaint filed
by Nakodar-based social activist and former president of Nakodar Nagar council, Aditya Bhatara, and adjourned her hearing to July 25.
Bhatara has submitted to the PSHRC that the construction of the new building of the Government Senior Secondary School(co-education) has come to stand standstill following the non-release of funds by the government.
The then Nakodar MLA Gurpart Singh Wadala on December 14, 2016, laid the foundation stone for the construction of the new building.
The new building became a necessity of time as the school was facing a shortage of classrooms after the demolition of the condemned building in 2012. Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and the state government jointly made efforts to start the construction of the new building for which Nagar Council had donated 14 kanals and 17 marlas of land to the Education Department. RI Raj Nayyar had donated Rs 10 lakh for the construction of the school building.
The director general of school education (DGSE) had released Rs1.14 crore for the construction of the building in October 2013, following directions from the Punjab State Human Rights Commission.
Rs 57 lakh were received in 2013, which was deposited in the accounts of the public works department. Then, the Executive Engineer (XEN)had said in 2016 that the two-story building would be completed within six months. He had said that the department had obtained a bearing capacity certificate of land from Guru Nanak Engineering College, Ludhiana, as the construction site was a pond.
Xen had said that fifty percent construction work had been completed, and the finance department had not released the remaining grant as a result, work came to stand standstill.
The school principal wrote to the concerned officials for the early release of the grant for the completion of a school building.
