Mangaluru, May 19: MP Nalin Kumar Kateel chaired a meeting with railway officials of Palakkad, Mysuru and Konkan railways at Netravati meeting hall in Zilla Panchayat, here on Monday April 18th.
Speaking on the occasion he said, due to the non co-operation of the members, the works of National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) in Dakshina Kannada has become slow. He charged the MCC executive engineer G V Rajasherkar for delay in shifting utilities like water pipeline and electricity transformer near the under-construction Padil-Bajal railway under-bridge, which was affecting the progress of the work. He also directed the officer to finish the work before May 28th.
MP Nalin charged the MCC engineers for failing to bring the related documents in the meeting and asked them to get the related documents when they attend the next meeting and also set a timetable which would be helpful in carrying out development works.
Railway officials who were present at the meeting, pointed out the problem of leakage in drainage pipeline placed near the railway colony near Wenlock Hospital. Despite repeated complaints to MCC, the problem has not been resolved yet. Even the drinking water problem has remained unaddressed, they complained.
Executive engineer G V Rajashekhar said, a tender of Rs 25 lakh has been invited to rectify the UGD pipeline and work will be begun in some days. Initiatives will also be taken to fix the drinking water problem.
Nalin Kumar said, he would provide Rs 10 lakh from his MP fund to construct railway underbridge at Adyar-Kemanjur. In order to meet the required amount, there is also a plan to collect the same amount of fund from Mangaluru North MLA Mohiuddin Bava and MLC Ivan D’Souza. The remaining amount should be given by the state government, he said.
MLC Ivan D’Souza, Palakkad division DRM Anand Prakash, Konkan Railway RM Bindhu Murlidharan, ADC Sadashiva Prabhu and joint commissioner Gokuldas Nayak were present on the occasion.
