Rijiju, Mukul to attend function
SHILLONG: More than Rs 18 lakh will be spent for the foundation laying ceremony of the Integrated Check Post at Dawki.
Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju will lay the foundation stone for the project on Tuesday in the presence of Chief Minister Mukul Sangma.
A letter has already been sent from the State Industries Department to Land Ports Authority of India, Delhi, under the Ministry of Home Affairs on January 17 for the release of Rs 5 lakh out of the total Rs 18,43,560 for the foundation stone laying ceremony.
As per the break-up of estimate for the ceremony related to the laying of the foundation stone, Rs 7,19,060 will be spent on pandals, flower arrangements, gate carpeting, sofa, bamboo barricades and toilets, and Rs 50,000 is the estimate for tea and snacks for VIPs (200 persons).
Lunch for 300 persons will cost Rs 2,25,000 and another Rs 1.5 lakh has been kept aside for additional tea and snacks for 1000 persons. The amount earmarked for other initiatives include sound system (Rs 50,000), photo and video recording (Rs 35,000), foundation stone with stand, platform, curtain, and flex materials (Rs 15,000), drinking water for all attendees with disposable glasses (Rs 8,000), mineral water for invitees and stage (Rs 6,000), police control room (Rs 20,000), designated area for parking of vehicles (Rs 10,000), transportation of pandal and stage materials, and dropping and returning (16 trips-Rs 2,40,000). All these works were entrusted to party decorators, but no names were mentioned.
Earlier, the State Government had spent over Rs 40 lakh on the inaugural function at Meghalaya House in Kolkata.
Other estimated expenditures which will be incurred by GM, DCIC, Jowai, include mementos-(10) at the rate of Rs 2,500 each, 10 bouquets for Rs 7,500, ‘traditional welcome’ by locals in traditional dress (Rs 15,000) and badges for volunteers (Rs 3,000).
The expenditure (Rs 1,50,000) to be incurred by Directorate of Commerce and Industries include contingency arrangement of five vehicles (Innova) for officials of the Land Ports Authority of India at the rate of Rs 5,000 for three days with a total cost of Rs 75,000 and advertisement-one fourth of the page, in two newspapers on the front page (Rs 40,000).
Work contract for the ICP, for which 82,372.63 sqm land was acquired by paying land compensation of Rs 7,90,28,235, was awarded on September 30 last year to TK Engineering Consortium Private Limited, Naharlagun, Arunachal Pradesh, and Rs 13.13 crore has already been released to RITES on award of work. An estimate of Rs 92.34 crore was approved for the work of ICP.
The facilities proposed for the ICP are customs processing, immigration clearance, passenger terminal, import and export warehouses, cargo terminal building, area for loose cargo, rummaging sheds, weighbridges, quarantine, public health, electric sub-station, parking, security and surveillance, bank, foreign exchange bureau, cafeteria and toilet block.