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Anna Regina Mayor and Town Council awards all subvention contracts.
Six projects, which are to be implemented by the Anna Regina Mayor and Town council, were yesterday awarded to four contractors on the Essequibo Coast. The projects were awarded to Ganesh Lall Contracting Services & Supplying of Materials, V&S Engineering and investment, H. Ramballi general construction and Payless General store.
The Mayor and Town Council handing over the contracts
The first project, which is the Rehabilitation of 240 feet of fencing north of the Anna Regina Town Council Compound at $1,966,378, was awarded to Ganesh Lall Contracting Services & Supplying of Materials.
The contracting company was also contracted to install one HDPE tube with head wall at Windsor Castle at a cost of $801,537.
V&S Engineering and investment was also contracted to install a HDPE tube, this time with self-acting door and head walls, along with the desilting 68 rods of drain in Three Friends, for $753,700. The company will also construct a similar door at Land of Plenty for $821,640.
H. Ramballi General Construction will also install a HDPE tube with head wall at Reliance, at a total cost of $723,710. Payless General store was contracted to do the rehabilitation of part of the northern fence at the Anna Regina Community Centre Ground, in the tune $2,732,200.
The Mayor of the Anna Regina municipality, Mr. Rabindranath Prabhulall, said that the council will do its utmost to ensure that there is transparency and accountability in the execution of projects within the municipality.
Prabhulall also noted that there will be community involvement. “I will be engaging residents in various communities for them to be involved in these works, they will be given bills of quantity and scope of work.
“We want proper work and it must be completed within the specified time. Whatever the benefits the community must be involved.”
The projects are expected to commence within two weeks, and are to be completed within two months.
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