Chennai Phase-II Housing Project

The Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that as reported by CGEWHO wherever defects are observed or have been pointed out by the beneficiaries, the same are being attended to and rectified before handing over the possession to the beneficiaries.

In a written reply in the Lok Sabha today she said, as reported by CGEWHO, the Project Manager of CGEWHO is posted at the project site to supervise the quality control and necessary checks/ tests are done at site, as per contract specifications. Necessary steps have already been taken to augment the labour and material resources as well as the administrative control. Also in this context, a meeting was organized by CEO, CGEWHO with the beneficiaries on 23rd August 2012.

The Ministry has asked CGEWHO to engage competent agency for third party quality audit for the project, Kumari Selja added.

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