After blacklisting an Uttar Pradesh-based company for not completing the construction of houses under Pradhan Mantri Aawas Yojana (PMAY) within the stipulated deadline, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has proposed the name of another agency to complete the pending work.
MV Omni company failed to construct 1,456 houses under PMAY near ICB Flora in Gota within the deadline. The company under the directorship of Mathuraprasad Pandey, erected the structure and completed the plaster work, but flooring, plumbing, wiring, wall erection, laying of paver blocks and other work were left unfinished.
As the pending work needed to be completed, the civic body has put up a proposal in the standing committee to get the work done by Maruti Infrastructure. An estimated cost of Rs 26 crore has been fixed to complete the work.
Bank guarantee amounting to Rs 3 crore has been seized by the civic body to finish the pending work of the project.
Sources said, “MV Omni company’s Mathuraprasad Pandey has become bankrupt. He had taken up work at Baroda Municipal Corporation, Delhi and Bhopal which he couldn’t complete. So, he was blacklisted everywhere.”
Harpalsinh Zala, additional city engineer, Housing Projects, said, “MV did not complete the work within the deadline. So, AMC issued a notice asking the company to complete the work in three months, which they failed to. Left with no option, the civic body blacklisted it.”
Regarding the money needed to complete the work, Zala said, “We have arrived at an estimate of Rs 26 crore to complete the pending work. We need to give it to other company. We even called MV Omni officials to provide us an estimate of the remaining work, but they did not turn up. We reviewed it ourselves and arrived at the estimated cost. We have put up a proposal in the Standing Committee to award the contract to Maruti Infrastructure.”