June 18, 2008
QUITO
The Minister of Transport and Public Works, Jorge Marun, tomorrow will begin a tour to check the progress of major road works being carried out in the country.
The official will begin the tour by the Core Amazon, which communicates via the provinces of the Amazon.
It was reported that on this trip will include the roads in the centre and south, that were most affected by the winter season.
Last week the president of the Republic, Rafael Correa, visited the Ministry and called for greater speed in the work vials.
Meanwhile, contractors of the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works assured that there are no delays in the payment of payrolls, but admitted that if it requires more quickly in the work should make a readjustment of values in the original contracts.
The minister Jorge Marun travel routes in the country to verify progress in work.
In response to the demand more quickly to rehabilitate the national road system made by the president Rafael Correa on Wednesday, Minister of Transport and Public Works (mTOP), Jorge Marun, will start from tomorrow a tour of the country to check the progress of work.
Marun perform the supervision of two to three days per week for an indefinite period of time. It is anticipated that the first tranche to be visited is the Core Amazon.
Meanwhile, contractors revise their schedules and for the moment no longer registered delays in payments of Mtop.
This is the case with the company Herdoiza & Crespo, registered as executor of the construction and maintenance of seven projects. According to his agent, Marcelo Herdoiza, there are no delays in the field and an outstanding balance would be cancelled by the end of this month.
Teodoro Street, representative of the company's Technical General Building, which has two projects in charge of maintenance and readjustment in the provinces of Carchi and Morona Santiago, insisted that payments are normal as well as schedules, but does not rule reprogramming of the same by the demand for more speed.
Guillermo Escalante, contractor of the road Ambato-Bathrooms (Tungurahua) and the track Huigra-Piedreros, Chimborazo, explained that streamlined procedures surrounding the collection of payroll in the first of roads with delays by mismanagement in the Secretariat Budgets of the Ministry of Finance.
Meanwhile, in the draft Huigra-Piedreros, the Ministry is late with payments, said Escalante and emphasizes that the current administration "there was a substantial change in address late payments from previous fiscal years." He hoped the arrival of members of Mtop these days to see progress in work and maintenance of roads.
Puente Bridge
Bay Caráquez
President
The president Rafael Correa will be tomorrow at Bay Caráquez to observe the work of the bridge that links it with St. Vincent.
Viaduct
This play the run the Army Corps of Engineers.
Emergency
The emergency was decreed the road on February 26, 2007 and are nearing completion just two works related to the way Papallacta-Baeza in the province of Napo.
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