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Construction of a caller span crossed River Cauvery, connecting Srirangam and Tiruchi city, has gathered momentum arsenic the travel of h2o successful the stream has travel down successful the past fewer weeks.
The non-Mettur play would supply a important model for the State Highways Department to expedite the works. The section is present targeting to implicit the enactment by May.
The department, which began enactment connected the caller span successful July 2024, had to contend with the travel of h2o successful the stream successful the pursuing months and the instauration works could beryllium taken up lone intermittently. It, however, took up respective off-site works specified arsenic readying pre-stressed factual girders to beryllium utilized for the caller bridge. Besides, the process of acquiring astir 2,283 quadrate metres of onshore and shifting of utilities were besides nether way.
According to sources, 99 retired of the 120 piles person been erected truthful far. Work is underway connected operation of capping beam and retaining wall, the sources said.
A mates of days ago, Municipal Administration Minister K. N. Nehru inspected the tract and sought to springiness a propulsion to the works.
Expressing assurance that the enactment would beryllium completed by May, an authoritative observed that enactment had been going connected and was ne'er suspended. While the acquisition process had been completed connected the Chinthamani side, a pending litigation had stalled the completion of the process connected the Mambazhasalai side. However, the contented would beryllium sorted retired soon.
The span was sanctioned astatine an estimation of ₹106 crore successful the State Budget for 2024-25 and is being built adjacent to the existing bridge. The existing span would beryllium retained to cater to postulation coming from Mambazha Salai, portion the caller 1 would beryllium for vehicles going successful the other direction.
