For keeping effective check on substandard quality work on development projects, the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has decided to immediately register construction items used in public sector and ensure certified construction products in all sorts of public development schemes as per the set criteria.
It was decided in meeting of the Standardisation Committee that was chaired by Engr Zahid Arif, KP Secretary Communication and Works, at his office in C&W Secretariat Peshawar on Thursday. Those who attended were included Dilnawaz Khan, Chief Monitoring P&D dept; Engr Sanober, CE Public Health Engineering department; Misal Khan, CE Irrigation dept; Zard Ali Khan, CE Centre; Muhammad Ashraf, CE North; M Ijaz Khan, MD Pakhtunkhwa Highway Authority; Shakir Habib, DS Technical C&W department; Engr Fareeha Malahat, SO Buildings and other concerned experts.
The meeting, after taking stock of the recommendations of the participants, decided to issue a circular to all the administrative secretaries of the province to strictly bound all the engineering associated nation building departments and sectors to use only registered construction items certified by the Standardisation Committee.
Engr Zahid Arif categorically directed all the construction firms, manufacturers and suppliers to submit their applications for registration of products immediately with DS Technical at C&W secretariat so that it could be timely used in various constructions in public sector. The proposed form for this purpose can be obtained from C&W secretariat Peshawar or can be downloaded from website of the dept viz .