Lucknow, May 17: Taking a serious note of cost escalation due to delay in implementation of various projects, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today warned that officials responsible for this would be taken to task.
“Delay in execution of projects not only create an additional financial burden on the state government, but also the people do not get timely advantage of the scheme,” Mayawati said during a high-level review meeting here.
“If major projects related to infrastructure are not completed on time or there is cost escalation due to laxity of any officer or executing agency, their accountability would be fixed,” she warned.
Mayawati directed weekly review of the progress of schemes related to various departments and said that projects, on which 80 per cent work is over, should be completed on priority.
–Agencies