The Hindu        01.09.2014   

Contractors delaying road work to be blacklisted

 The Corporation will begin to blacklist contractors who fail to complete road works in three months after the work order has been issued.

At a Corporation Council meeting, Mayor Saidai Duraisamy said a number of contractors were delaying road works. “Delays of seven to eight months have been reported across the city. Contractors will get only three months to complete a road work, hereafter. We will penalise contractors for delay,” he said. The civic body has blacklisted a contractor who failed to complete work on stormwater drains connecting Chetpet lake and Cooum, delaying it by two years and affecting monsoon preparedness in many parts of the city.