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Due to delay in payments, Contractor suffered heart attack
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Sunday, 30 March 2014
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Srinagar: Due to the report
‘inordinate’ delay in the disbursement of pending payments to the contractors,
Ghulam Nabi Rather one contractor Sunday suffered a massive heart
attack. Authorities have however, vehemently denied the allegations. stating
that the payments were disbursed on time.
According to the KNS correspondent, one Rather suffered
cardiac arrest in the office of the Executive Engineer Flood Control here. The
reports stated that inside the office chamber the verbal dual erupted over the
delay in the disbursement of the pending payments due to which Gulam Nabi
complained about the severe chest pain that made his other colleagues to shift
him to the hospital where doctors stated that he has suffered the cardiac
arrest.
The president of Contractors Association flood control
and irrigation department Nissar Ahmad Khan told KNS that the department of
flood control and Irrigation has deliberately kept their payments in limbo that
are due from the last several months. He stated that the contractors
completed their respective works on time in the department and that even in the
Month of March their payments have been kept awaited with the deliberate attempt
to torment the contractors mentally.
Nisar added that they approached the Chief Engineer of
the concerned department who assured that the payments shall be disbursed at
the earliest. “He even telephoned the concerned Executive Engineer and directed
him to disburse the amount. He even asked us to meet the Executive Engineer at
his office.”
Contractors Association president stated that when the
contractors reached the office of Executive Engineer, he again expressed his
unwillingness in the issuance of the payments to the contractors. “A verbal
dual was started by the concerned Executive Engineer due to which one of our
colleagues Ghulam Nabi fainted on the floor. We took him to the hospital where
doctors said that he has suffered heart attack.”
He added that the contractors are suffering from the
worst crises at present and that it is only due to the delay in the
disbursement of our due amounts that we have landed in the state of trauma.
Meanwhile, the Chief Engineer of Flood Control department while giving
reference of his Executive Engineer stated that the payments in favor of the
contractors have already been disbursed. (KNS)
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