Fresh Tenders Soon For Amaravati Development Works: Narayana

Amaravati: Maintaining that the way for closing the old tenders that have turned as an obstacle, is now cleared for the Amaravati developmental works, Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD) P Narayana declared on Monday that the process to call for fresh tenders will begin soon.

Stating that the 39th Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) meeting was held under the leadership of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu at the State Secretariat, the Minister told media persons that all the developmental works in Amaravati will be completed in another three years.

The CRDA meeting took various decisions with regard to Amaravati developmental works.

Tenders have been called between 2014 and 2019 for works worth Rs 41,000 crore in Amaravati of which works amounting to Rs 35,000 crore have been launched, Narayana said.

Works have been taken up for the construction of the High Court, Assembly along with several roads, residential complexes for the High Court judges, the Ministers and the officers, the Minister said.

Regretting that the previous government has totally neglected the ongoing works in the name of three capitals, Narayana said that even bills worth several crores for various agencies which have taken up the works have been kept pending. A technical committee comprising the chief engineers has been constituted on July 24 only to formulate the norms to resolve such issues with regard to pending bills of the past tenders and close the matter permanently, he said.

Stating that the panel has submitted its report on October 29 with 23 points, the MAUD Minister said that the CRDA meeting discussed the report in detail and approved it. As per the 23 recommendations of this committee all the old tenders will be closed and fresh tenders will be called, he added.