Srinagar Oct 08: The
Central Public Works Department has come under the scanner for
allegedly doing faulty soil testing of the land proposed for the Central
University Kashmir.
In a recently
held meeting, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir was told by Central
University Kashmir authorities that Central Public Works Department had
done faulty soil testing on the varsity land in Ganderbal.
“Soul
resting report and other works done by Central Public Works Department
was faulty and they have been already reported for investigation by the
bureau of CVC and CBI. The Vice Chancellor said that several executing
agencies including NBCV and NPCC have also failed to adhere to the
timelines for the construction of pre-engineered buildings and other
works alloyed to them and the university has suffered a lot on account
of their follies in terms of its finances as well as reputation,”
minutes of the meeting reads.
The
varsity authorities told Divisional Commissioner that encroachment of
land by certain individuals needs to be vacated immediately. Following
which Divisional Commissioner as per the minutes of the meeting directed
DC Ganderbal to constitute a committee of Revenue, Police and CUK for
demarcation and removal of encroachments from CUK land.
The
CUK is presently functioning from multiple campuses in Ganderbal
including green campus erstwhile college of physical education Tulmulla
campus, allotted site Nunar campus DIET building, Science and Arts
block, old district hospital and the older structures and buildings at
these sites were renovated and refurbished besides construction of new
structures was done by the campus development with of the varsity before
the class work was started.
As per
the documents, CUK is a mega project and important project as thousands
of students from JK and other parts of the country will be pursuing
their higher education through it.
“Construction
Department has also constructed scores of other classrooms in the other
campuses and roughly around 70,000 sq feet new structures were raised
in a matter of six to nine months only and repairs works equivalent to
around 50,000 sq ft were also made during this period,” the documents
read.
The varsity is offering 45 postgraduate undergraduate and five year integrated research and diploma programmes
“It
was acknowledged that the varsity’s inability to construct the
permanent structures at its alloyed site as per the already drafted and
approved master plan at Tulmulla citing several technical reasons
especially the low load bearing capacity of the major chunk of land
transferred by the govt to the university,” the document reads. (KINS)
