Government finds flaws in data on works and prepares application for mayors to provide information

The government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) has found erroneous data about the status of works started in the previous administration and plans to launch an application for mayors to update information about the projects and help identify the reasons for the problems.

Despite the work of the transition team with representatives of the previous government, the government still collects reports of flaws in the data inherited from the ministries of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL). Members of the Ministry of Cities, for example, say that they have already identified some sanitation works that have been completed, but, according to the spreadsheets of the former Ministry of Regional Development, they are still in progress.

Minister Rui Costa (Casa Civil) made a round of visits to Lula’s ministries and identified the need to refine information on the progress of works.

“This is being raised by all the ministries. For smaller works, such as in the area of ​​health and education, we are finishing an application so that the mayors themselves inform the status”, he told the Sheet the executive secretary of the Civil House, Miriam Belchior, who accompanied Costa in the meetings.

The government hopes that, with the help of mayors, it will be possible to know exactly what the current stage of each work is, in addition to properly identifying the reason for delays and stoppages.

With this, each folder will be able to look for the solution of the problem. Among the most common causes for delayed or stopped developments is the abandonment of the work by the responsible company, obstacles in licensing or legal issues.

For the Planalto Palace, the application will speed up the collection of information, as the update on the work would come directly from those who are in loco.

As shown to Sheetthe new Minha Casa, Minha Vida will start with a liability of 130,500 homes whose works are delayed or paralyzed, according to a survey with government data.

The Ministry of Cities wants information on the housing sector to be verified as well.

Resuming stalled works is one of Lula’s priorities. He wants to complete the design of the new PAC (Growth Acceleration Program) with an initial focus on completing undertakings that have not been fully executed.

At the end of December, when presenting the final balance of the transition, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) said that the Bolsonaro government left 14,000 works at a standstill.

“More than 14,000 works stopped. This is not austerity, this is management inefficiency. A Herculean task that lies ahead”, said Alckmin at the time.

The data includes schools, hospitals, bridges, squares, roads, bike paths, sports courts, sanitation and urbanization systems and other developments.

In the transport area, there were around 100 developments on highways at a slow pace or at a standstill by the end of 2022.

Minister Renan Filho (Transport) has already launched a plan to resume over 670 km of work that has now been halted due to lack of funds.

The portfolio expects to invest BRL 1.7 billion in the first 100 days of government and wants to try to deliver 861 paved, revitalized and signposted kilometers by April 2023.

President Lula is preparing a public investment plan to try to encourage economic activity to be presented before the ceremony of his 100th day in office. The list, in this initial phase, will include, as a priority, the resumption of works that are stopped or that are at a slow pace.

But the Planalto Palace also wants to publicize projects to be contracted, such as new undertakings of Minha Casa, Minha Vida, in addition to the construction of cisterns and acceleration of highway maintenance services.