PWD to organize two day Quality Assurance workshop

07.06.10 Mangalore : The various department of the Government would be executive large number of works costing reasonable amount every year and it is the policy of the Government to see that all the works are carried out strictly as per standards, said Dr P Mahadevappa, member secretary, Task Force for Quality Assurance.

He was speaking at the press meet held at Public Works Department, on June 7, Monday. In order to provide the opportunity for the junior engineers to participate in the workshop and expose themselves to the modern trends in Engineering, hence it will organize two day workshop at T V Raman Pai Convention Centre on June 10 and June 11, he added.

He also said that Honourable Chief Minister and Honourable Minister of Public Works have taken a decision to form a Task Force to look into the various aspects of execution of Governmental works including enhancing and maintaining the quality of every work.

The Task Force has been formed under the leadership of Dr C S Vishwanath as chairman and it has 10 eminent Engineers, expert Engineers as the members of Task Force, he informed.

B S Balakrishna, Superintendent Engineer, PWD Mangalore Circle said that, The Task Force has initiated many programmes to enhance the quality of the works including increasing the technical competence of the engineers which is of prime importance.

Honourable Minister for Public Works C M Udasi will inaugurate the event in the presence of District in charge minister Krishna J Palemar.  The expert engineers from different parts of India will present ten technical lectures in the workshop. Around 300 engineers from 4 districts will participate in the seminar.

I Ravindranath, Member Secretary was present at the press meet.