GTA projects to have `detail boards'

SNS, DARJEELING, 18 JANUARY 2018: In what the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) said will be an effort to maintain transparency in all development work undertaken by the GTA board, all the details of a project, including its cost, will be written in a board and put up at the project site after inauguration. 

Chairman of the GTA Board of Administrators Binoy Tamang today said that an order has been issued in this regard, asking the concerned to put up such boards at development project sites, be it roads, school, health centres or even classrooms, among other things. "The details will include the GTA department that executed the project, the contractor assigned and the cost, among other things," he said.

It may be mentioned that this will be the first time that such a move is being made in the GTA area.

"We want people to know about the project from the board, where they can learn about the cost also," said Mr Tamang.

A similar step will be taken in the 100 days' work scheme, where the supply and the man-days will be mentioned in the boards.

The GTA is further developing a software, through which one can find out the status of the project being undertaken.

"We have started using software through which payment for a project, if it has been passed, will go directly to the contractor's account through the treasury. This is a proper accounting system and you do not have to carry around cheques anymore,' said Mr Tamang.