PANCHAYATI RAJ DEPARTMENT MUST FOLLOW STANDARD DRAWINGS AND DESIGN PARAMETERS ,IN THE INTEREST OF SPECIFICATIONS MENTIONED INTHE DESIGN & SCOPE OF THE SCHEME PROPOSED BY THE GRAM SABHA, AND APPROVED BY THE PROGRAMME OFFICER AND THE PROJECT OFFICER OF MGNREGA .

Today on 13-6-2022 it was the occasion when visited the office of the Gram Panchayat Gandhir Tehsil Jhandutta Distt Bilaspur Himachal Pradesh in connection with the Social Audit Inspection of record related to the Rain shelter, Kathuin Chowk, B/Wall constructed in the temple complex of Mata Khabri Devi ji area and the proposed foot path in village Kolka .The Secretary Gram Panchayat Gandhir produced the record of the office related to the Administrative concern but failed to produce the record of the Engineering schedule pertinent to the Estimating and costing of the works completed during the year 1920 -21 and 1921-22 , It is particularly mentioned here that the Construction agencies are increasing the amount of the proposed works at their own level and no permission is obtained from the competent higher authority to get the enhancement of schedule of quantities approved which is a wrong practice of the department of Panchayati Raj as such many works are incomplete and there is no allotment of the additional funding for the accomplishment of remaining balance works .The completion certificates of the works could not be released till it is worth use by the Public utilities for which the competent higher authority must issue necessary directions to the Construction agencies regarding to follow the tendered amount and items of the works approved by the Engineer in Incharge responsible for the design & scope and DPR assessed for the Construction of various schemes and works however standard drawings should be approved by the department of the RDD so that necessary utilisation certificates may be issued by the Engineering Department of the Panchayati Raj /RDD .Computers are playing more important role in offices as required for the retrieving informations and producing the reports and returns for which the department of Panchayati Raj must do the needful as per requirement of the Design & Scope of the Schemes and works and dealing with the standard drawings and DPRs used and exercised by the Panchayati Raj and RDD in the field of management and operation however their is no Proper set up of the drawings and Design wing in the department and the Construction agencies are doing this work and schedule of layout at their own level which is not good practice for the Constitution of various projects and schemes .The Engineering Department is too responsible to issue necessary certificate of the specifications followed by the department and enter every measurement of the schedule of items and description made by the Abstract of cost and the quantities test checked by the Engineering wing planning, managing and doing the needful at the site of work.