By IANS,
Gurgaon: Power utility Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd. (DHBVN) has served a termination notice on the contractor in charge of the two constructions sites of the World Bank-funded projects, an official said Monday.
The contractor was involved in alleged laxity at the sites of Haryana power system improvement projects here. Now, all work by the contractor has ceased.
The World Bank took a serious note of an incident of negligence at a construction site of Carterpuri village near sector 23 where a minor child, Sachin, July 1 fell into a pit dug up by the contractor, the district public relations official told IANS.
The incident followed an accident in April in which an employee of the contractor was killed, the official said.
For the July 1 incident, the DHBVN has suspended three officers for lapse in supervision and initiated an internal inquiry.