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A time aft Kerala wrote a missive to Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari seeking contiguous enactment into the illness of an under-construction embankment astatine Mylakkadu, adjacent Kottiyam, connected Friday connected the National Highway, the Centre began steps to blacklist the operation company. According to sources, the Union authorities has issued a amusement origin announcement to the institution arsenic to wherefore blacklisting should not beryllium considered against it for the alleged nonaccomplishment successful work.
The task manager and nonmigratory technologist of the contractor institution person besides been transferred temporarily. An adept committee volition beryllium visiting the tract soon, and further enactment volition beryllium taken based connected the committee’s report. Public Works section (PWD) Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas had sent the missive seeking the Centre’s contiguous involution successful the matter.
State inquiry
The missive besides demanded that the operation of the National Highway 66 beryllium completed connected clip without compromising the prime and information of the project. The Minister has besides ordered an contiguous probe into the illness by the PWD secretary. The National Highway Authority of India has informed that experts volition beryllium appointed to behaviour a elaborate introspection into the incident.
The sidewall of the attack roadworthy operation of the National Highway caved successful connected Friday, leaving ample craters connected the work roadworthy beneath and trapping vehicles, including a schoolhouse bus, on the stretch. The mishap occurred connected the 31.25 km Kadampattukonam-Kollam stretch, wherever the operation was entrusted to Shivalaya Construction Limited. The State authorities had earlier fixed support to usage the ungraded excavated from the Ashtamudi water for the operation of the National Highway. It is not wide whether this ungraded was utilized astatine the tract wherever the roadworthy collapsed.
