Date:16/05/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/16/stories/2008051654260500.htm

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

e-submission soon for road projects tendering

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: To promote e-governance, the Highways Department is commissioning e-submission of tenders for its major road projects, Highways Secretary K. Allaudin has said.

Presiding over the inauguration here of the first phase of the computer training programme for Highways Department employees, he said e-submission, for which the National Informatics Centre would extend software support, would be a follow-up of e-tendering introduced for projects worth more than Rs.10 lakh. The registered contractor could download application/tender documents.

Black-spots

Mr. Allaudin said the Highways Department had identified 50 accident-prone locations. Together with the Home Department, it would take up road improvement work in 20 locations initially, as part of the Tamil Nadu Road Sector Project. The remaining 30 locations would be covered under the Comprehensive Road Infrastructure Development Programme.

Inaugurating the training programme, organised with the help of HCL Technologies, Minister for Highways and Minor Ports M.P. Saminathan said the State would take measures to construct quality roads and bridges that would match global standards.

While most of vacancies in the department had been filled after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam came to power, 53 vacancies of Assistant Engineers would be filled shortly.