Govt to audit roads, buildings to ensure no cost-escalation

The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to conduct a construction audit of roads and buildings to ensure there is no cost escalation after administrative approvals, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said during Question Hour on Thursday.
An enormous increase has been witnessed in the cost of construction of roads and buildings during the past five years, and a construction audit would help arrest such cost escalation, he said in the Assembly. Sukhu added that the state was passing through a financial crisis and accused the previous BJP government of opening institutions indiscriminately during the election year. “It would have been better if the previous BJP government had provided sufficient funds for the Mandi Degree College instead of opening more colleges,” he added.
He added that there have been some alterations to the structure of the buildings and that an additional fund of Rs 14 crore is required to complete the
construction work.