Cong for quality test of bridges built on fourlane road

Raipur, April 08, 2013

Congress has asked district administration to conduct quality test of bridges and culverts built on newly constructed Tatibandh-Arang fourlane road. In this connection, the party’s business cell has submitted memorandum to Collector Siddharth Komal Pardeshi on Monday.

“First, technical flaws were found in construction of Sarona overbridge. Now, there is another report of construction flaw on underbridge at Ring Road No 1 near Tagore Nagar. We doubt that the implementing agency – DS Construction, hired by NHAI to carry fourlane project, has not ensured quality while constructing bridges and culverts over the fourlane road,” said the cell’s state president Kanhaiyya Agrawal.

Alleging that DS Construction, NHAI and PWD were together playing with lives of motorists, the cell demanded probe into construction quality of the fourlane project by an independent agency.

Agrawal charged that DS Construction staked quality of fourlane road since beginning of the project by greasing the palms of relevant officials. 

“When the Railways found that the implementing agency had compromised quality norms while constructing Sarona overbridge, it closed vehicle entry on particular stretch of the road. Since then, two years have passed but DS Construction has not built new bridge as directed. Instead, the implementing agency is attempting to obtain NOC from Railways through wrong means,” he said.

While submitting memorandum to Collector, Agrawal was accompanied by cell members Atul Raghuvanshi, Anurag Rathi, Vikrant Shirke, Prateek Agrawal, Praveen Jain, Purushottam Sharma, Hemant Sahu, Atul Shukla, etc.