2-March-2013
TEZPUR : A multi-crore project of developmental work at the Lokapriya Gopinath
Bardoloi Regional Mental Health (LGBRMH) has been allegedly stalled following a
dispute among suppliers of materials like sand and gravel and bricks required
for the construction work.
It is to be stated that the Lokapriya Gopinath Bardoloi Regional Institute of
Mental Health (LGBRIMH) is one of the oldest mental health care institutes in
India established in the year 1876. The institute that came into being with the
aim of providing psychiatric care services with state-of-the- art academic
infrastructure in neuropsychiatry and allied sciences and to provide high
quality cost-effective mental health care to the people of north-eastern region
of India through exceptional services in an environment of education, teaching
and research is located here in Tezpur's Kalibari in Sonitpur district.
The institute is spread over 81 acres of land with a lush green campus. Over
the years, this tertiary mental health care institute has been playing a major
role in catering to the entire population of the region.The institute which was
earlier popularly known as 'pagala fatek' (asylum for the mentally ill people)
is now a post-graduate teaching and research centre with an aim to meet the
manpower requirements in the field of mental health in the region and has been
providing academic courses in Psychiatry, Psychiatric Nursing and Psychiatric
Social Work at PG level and Diploma in Psychiatric Nursing (DPN) courses. The
institute is going to be upgraded with a multi-crore project of Rs 485 crore.
According to official information available here, two construction companies
are engaged in the new building construction of the institute. One is KLV
Construction Company and the other is Brahmaputra Construction. The first one
has got work order of Rs 185 crore while the later was given work of Rs 300
crore. As a huge amounts of materials like, brick, sand and broken chips etc.,
are required, some suppliers have been supplying the required materials to the
two companies.
However, a section alleged that after the two companies arrived at the
work-site, an illegally formed supplier organisation 'National Builders' has
started to collect tax from each truck, carrying goods like brick, sand and
broken chips for the construction work of the institute allegedly in cahoots
with the police, the local MLA and the officials of the Forest department
creating an untoward situation here which has allegedly hampered the progress
of the work of the multi-crore project. The socially aware people here have
expressed annoyance over the act of running of an illegal syndicate at the work
site to collect tax from the goods supplying trucks which also resulted in a
scuffle between a employment seeking youth and the 'illegally' formed body
'National Builders'.
They said that if the same is not closed immediately, in the long run there are
maximum chances of certain unwanted situation occurring at the work site. For
the people here the 'National Builders' is an illegal organisation formed with
some local anti-social people which instead of helping in the work of the
companies concerned with institute is allegedly harassing obstructing the
progress of the multi-crore project. People here urged the administration to
take action against the illegal organisation without any delay.
On the other hand, nature loving organisations working here in the district
also alleged that even though the Minor Mineral Corporation (MMCs) and Mahal
for sand and gravel should not be run as per the Forest Act and the Supreme
Court order, yet some construction companies including KLV and Brahmaputra
Construction companies engaged here in the construction work of LGBRIMH have
been using materials supplied from certain illegally run quarries thereby
fuelling the act of damaging the ecological balance. Therefore, people have
urged the administration to intervene in the ongoing matter that has been
creating an awkward situation at the work site.
http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=mar0313/state06
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