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THE WORLD BANK UNDER ITS ROAD MAINTENANCE AND REHABILITATION PROJECTS HAS FUNDED THE RECONSTRUCTION OF EAST-WEST HIGHWAY BETWEEN TINGOU AND MUNDRAU ON MANUS ISLAND.
"WAY FORWARD FOR RMRP FORCE ACCOUNT IN MANUS"
Department of Works is considering readopting one of the old methods of carrying out construction and maintenance works on roads in Papua New Guinea.
The method is called "FORCE ACCOUNT" or "DAY LABOR" which means using FF3, FF4 or purchase order to acquire fuel, labor, plant hire and other equipment. Department of Works in Manus Province has been the first province to use this method of construction and maintenance since the Government, under its privatization policy de-capacitated the "Plant and Transport Division (PTD)" of Department of Works.
The World Bank and even other Donor Agencies were also not too keen on reviving the Force Account, because according to their understanding, it was too expensive, but Department of Works managed to convince the World Bank to have it implemented on trial basis on a section of the highway; and if it turned out to be successful, the World Bank will give its no objection to reconstruct the rest of the sections. As a result of this understanding between the World Bank and the Department of Works, this method has been used for the reconstruction of the East-West (or Somare) Highway between Tingou and Mundrau.
The East-West Highway reconstruction is funded by World Bank under its RMRP programmes at the value of K4.6million. The contract, No.SL/RMRP/FA/01/2010, was awarded to DoW Manus and also supervised by the Department with Cardno Acil (PNG) Limited as Project Managers. A time frame of twelve months was given. Related works commenced back in May 2010 and expected to be completed this June.
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