“Merely laying foundation of a hospital or school building doesn’t satisfy people till such a building is completed and hand handed over to the concerned department for using it for the purpose for which it had to be built.”
The repeated directions from the Jammu & Kashmir Government to the construction agencies allotted the construction of hospital and school buildings are not taken serious enough to complete key infrastructural facilities in health and education sector in given timelines. Knowing that hospital buildings are to be used for the health facilities and schools for education of children the concerned departments should have shown zero tolerance against missing of deadlines in completion of such buildings either by the Government owned construction agencies. A cursory look at some of the under construction hospital and school buildings shows that unwanted delays in the completion of such buildings have resulted in unwanted delays in their handing over to health and education department respectively. People often protest and even seek the intervention of the top functionaries of both health and medical education department over the completion of the under construction hospital and school buildings by sending delegations to their offices in the civil secretariat but such grievances are not taken as serious as they should be taken for the purposes of expediting the completion of hospital and school building in given timelines. Unfortunately the Colleges established in recent years both in Kashmir Valley and as well as Jammu division are yet to be shifted to the buildings the work on which was started by the Government’s own construction agencies liked J&K Projects Construction Corporation (JKPCC) years ago and had to be completed in the preceeding years.
“Hospitals and schools can’t be run from either the rented buildings or the old government buildings vacated by some departments after being declared unfit for public movement by the Public Works (R&B) department. Administrative wisdom demand excessive focus on completion of incomplete buildings in given timelines besides completion of languishing projects launched during the reigns of popular Governments of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state.”
Merely laying foundation of a hospital or school building doesn’t satisfy people till such a building is completed and hand handed over to the concerned department for using it for the purpose for which it had to be built. Taking years together to miss not one but many deadlines in completing a hospital or a school building is tantamount to denying people the accessibility to such public facilities for which such a building is being built. As delays in completion of hospital and school buildings also delays the process of equipping such buildings with other key infrastructural facilities for bigger public conveniences like delivery of heath services and classroom teaching, the onus to oversee the work on construction of such buildings lies on top brass of the concerned department as they at the end of the day are being built for delivery of health services and education of children. Hospitals and schools can’t be run from either the rented buildings or the old government buildings vacated by some departments after being declared unfit for public movement by the Public Works (R&B) department. Administrative wisdom demand excessive focus on completion of incomplete buildings in given timelines besides completion of languishing projects launched during the reigns of popular Governments of erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state.
