Scheduled time ended over a year ago
Even though scheduled time for construction of a college building cum cyclone centre at the premises of Keramot Ali College in Char Biswas union under Galachipa upazila ended over 15 months ago, 25 percent of the work is still incomplete.
As a result, academic activities of the institution are greatly hampered.
There are 500 students, 20 teachers and six staff and classes are being held in two tin-roofed houses now.
The authority concerned issued 11 letters to the construction firm asking them to finish the incomplete work soon but they didn't pay any heed, hampering the academic activities of the institution.
Patuakhali Education Engineering Department (EED) floated tender to construct a four-storey cyclone shelter and academic building at Keramot Ali College premises at a cost of Tk 1.79 crore and recommended the work in favour of Siam Enterprise on August 25, 2013.
As per contract, the work was supposed to be completed by May, 2016.
Principal of the college Abdul Jabbar Khan said, “We have to run academic activities of the institution in two tin-roofed houses and there is no common room for the students and separate toilet for the girl students.”
Contractor Renu Akhter said the construction work was delayed as some of the permanent labourers fell sick during the construction period.
Golam Mostafa, a prominent businessman from Char Biswas union and currently living in the capital, set up the college on 1.5 acres of land after the name of his father Keramot Ali in 2000.
The college received approval and qualified for Monthly Payment Order (MPO) facilities in the year 2005.
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