Nellore: Payment rejected for poor quality of works

Nellore: In the wake of complaints over quality of the cement roads being laid on a war-footing in place of roads dug up for underground drainage scheme, officials of the public health department have deployed quality control teams from various parts of the state. The teams rejected payment for nearly 6,000 cubic meters of concrete work executed by several firms including, Mega Engineering, NCC and L&T among others after quality control checks. However, keeping a tab on quality of the road works, has become a Herculean task for the public health and civic body engineers, monitoring the works being executed by as many as 100 odd batches, belonging to a host of contract firms that are involved in the exercise in different parts of the city. According to the engineers of public health department, 520 kms of road is being laid in Nellore city and rural assembly segments falling under Nellore Municipal Corporation limits.