PGMA moves to complete P21-B Subic-Clark road project
Now, President Arroyo is moving in. She is determined to speed up the completion of the PhP 21 billion Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEx), which is seriously behind schedule.
In fact, the President has instructed the Subic-Clark Alliance for Development council (SCADC) to invite the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) and the Japanese principal contractors and consultants for an urgent meeting in Malacanang on Friday.
The main agenda at this meeting would be to find a workable solution to the tag-o-war between the contractors and the authorities, which is the cause of the delay in the completion of the project.
In an interview at his extension office here, Sec. Edgardo Pamintuan, SCADC chief, said that he has relayed this to the Japanese consortium.
Earlier, the Japanese consortium, which is constructing the expressway, has asked for a 457-day extension to finish the 93-kilometer road project due mainly to right-of-way problems.
Earlier, Pamintuan briefed the President that the delay in the completion of the project is being caused by the principal Japanese contractors failure to comply with its obligation to utilize in the prosecution of the project, new, modern and heavy equipment.
Pamintuan said that the main reason for inviting DPWH Secretary Manuel Bonoan to the Malacanang meeting, is to look into the possibility of seeking the help of the DPWH on allowing the use of the giant equipment they used in building the multi-billion peso anti-lahar megadike in Pampanga after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991.
Aside from Pamintuan and Secretary Cerge M. Remonde, presidential adviser on infrastructure development, others invited to the Friday meeting at Malacanang were
BCDA president Narciso Abaya and the principal contractors and consultants of the expressway project.
Some officials of the Japanese consortium earlier blamed BCDA for its alleged failure to immediately solve the right-of-way problem in the Dinalupihan, Bataan section of the project.
The Japanese contractor undertaking the Package I of the project between Subic and Clark was blamed for the delay of the construction and the negative slippage.
According to Pamintuan, reports reaching him showed that the Japanese contractor in that portion relied mostly on small and old equipment provided by sub-contractors.
The contractors so far have incurred an 8 percent slippage. A 15 percent slippage or delay could be ground for re-termination of the contract, Pamintuan said. The project was contracted to be completed in November this year. (PNA)
In fact, the President has instructed the Subic-Clark Alliance for Development council (SCADC) to invite the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), the Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) and the Japanese principal contractors and consultants for an urgent meeting in Malacanang on Friday.
The main agenda at this meeting would be to find a workable solution to the tag-o-war between the contractors and the authorities, which is the cause of the delay in the completion of the project.
In an interview at his extension office here, Sec. Edgardo Pamintuan, SCADC chief, said that he has relayed this to the Japanese consortium.
Earlier, the Japanese consortium, which is constructing the expressway, has asked for a 457-day extension to finish the 93-kilometer road project due mainly to right-of-way problems.
Earlier, Pamintuan briefed the President that the delay in the completion of the project is being caused by the principal Japanese contractors failure to comply with its obligation to utilize in the prosecution of the project, new, modern and heavy equipment.
Pamintuan said that the main reason for inviting DPWH Secretary Manuel Bonoan to the Malacanang meeting, is to look into the possibility of seeking the help of the DPWH on allowing the use of the giant equipment they used in building the multi-billion peso anti-lahar megadike in Pampanga after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991.
Aside from Pamintuan and Secretary Cerge M. Remonde, presidential adviser on infrastructure development, others invited to the Friday meeting at Malacanang were
BCDA president Narciso Abaya and the principal contractors and consultants of the expressway project.
Some officials of the Japanese consortium earlier blamed BCDA for its alleged failure to immediately solve the right-of-way problem in the Dinalupihan, Bataan section of the project.
The Japanese contractor undertaking the Package I of the project between Subic and Clark was blamed for the delay of the construction and the negative slippage.
According to Pamintuan, reports reaching him showed that the Japanese contractor in that portion relied mostly on small and old equipment provided by sub-contractors.
The contractors so far have incurred an 8 percent slippage. A 15 percent slippage or delay could be ground for re-termination of the contract, Pamintuan said. The project was contracted to be completed in November this year. (PNA)
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