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With the operation of the overbridge adjacent the Fort Station successful the metropolis progressing astatine a snail’s pace, Tiruchi Member of Parliament Durai Vaiko has sought the involution of the Railway Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, to expedite the project.
Mr. Durai Vaiko, who called connected the Minister successful New Delhi connected Friday, pointed retired that the enactment that began successful March 2024 should person been completed by now, but had been dragging on.
The caller span was being built jointly by the Indian Railways and the Tiruchi Corporation. While the Railways volition physique the operation connected its information (above the railway lines connected the Tiruchi-Karur section), the Corporation volition physique the attack roads connected either broadside of the railway enactment astatine a outgo of ₹34.10 crore. The aged British-built constrictive span was demolished to marque mode for the caller one.
In a practice to the Railway Minister, Mr. Durai Vaiko said that determination was immoderate hold successful the demolition of the aged bridge. Now, the gait of the enactment had slackened again. There was hold successful procurement of alloy from SAIL for the adjacent signifier of construction. However, SAIL authorities attributed the hold to the contractor not clearing the pending dues.
“I requested the Minister to marque enquiries and contented due directions to guarantee that the enactment was not delayed owed to the continued indifference of the contractor,” Mr. Durai Vaiko said.
The overbridge is successful the bosom of the city. With the arterial roadworthy linking the Salai Road and the Main Guard Gate country remaining closed to vehicular postulation to facilitate the operation work, each vehicles had to instrumentality a detour, helium pointed out.
The caller span adjacent the Fort Station was sanctioned aft the constrictive aged bridge, built successful 1876, had turned anemic and a information of its retaining partition connected the eastbound broadside of the attack roadworthy caved successful during dense rainfall successful July 2020.
