ACB to probe Barapulla extension project delay

DELHI LG VK Saxena has ordered an Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) probe into the more than a decade delay in the construction of the Barapulla flyover.

- ANUP VERMA @ New Delhi

This delay has also caused loss of hundreds of crores to the government exchequer by way of cost overruns and payment of arbitration penalty due to the delay, to the private contractor, L&T. Approving the proposal of the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) of the Cabinet headed by CM, Rekha Gupta, the LG noted on file that the extraordinary delay in this project has raised some fundamental policy issues which must be addressed like whether large projects of this nature should have arbitration clauses embedding in them which provides incentive to contractors for making exorbitant claims as has been seen in other matters as well, even when the contractor is