Guwahati: City dwellers will no longer experience inconvenience due to a lack of coordination among govt departments during development works. State govt on Tuesday launched a dedicated portal to bring road-cutting agencies and road-owning departments onto a single platform, ensuring better coordination, increased accountability, and greater transparency.Housing and urban affairs minister Jayanta Mallabaruah, while launching the portal ‘Path Samanway’, said the portal will also enable the public to monitor the status and progress of ongoing work in real time. Speaking at a press conference, the minister said, “Today, we have launched an app and website named ‘Path Samanvay’. This app is for coordination among various departments during the execution of public works like digging for a gas pipeline. From now onwards, every agency will apply for NOC online and will get the permission online. This will remain in the public domain. After closure, they will have to take a completion certificate.“The development of the app and the portal is an initiative of the Kamrup (Metro) district administration. He added that whoever violates the system would be fined under the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) Act. “The contractor will have to give a closure report. This is an integrated system. Whoever violates it will be fined under the DDMA Act,” he added.The minister said a lack of coordination among departments was an issue, as a result of which a road is often dug up after a road-owning agency repairs it. “This does not only create inconvenience to the people but also impacts funds,” he added.Mallabaruah said the mechanism has been developed for the Kamrup (Metro) district for now, and a similar system will soon be introduced in other parts of the state.
