Kerala Public Works Department finalises action plan to improve its vigilance mechanism
The Hindu
Apart from upgrading the PWD’s existing quality control offices, there would be efforts to launch three mobile quality testing laboratories for the department with automatic report generation features, says Public Works Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas
The Public Works department (PWD) has finalised a concrete action plan to strengthen its vigilance mechanism across the State with better technological support, human resource and mobile testing lab facilities for quality check.
The details of the action plan meant for a scientific social auditing were announced by Public Works Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas after chairing a special meeting of the recently constituted vigilance committee at the Government Guest House in Kozhikode on Friday.
In 2011, the Karnataka government announced that five botanical gardens will be developed on the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru across the State. But according to the latest developments, there will only be four such gardens as the Horticulture Department is most likely to drop the project that was supposed to come up in Chikkaballapura district.