7 months ago
1
Raising superior concerns astir the prime of operation and the stableness of the reinforced world (RE) partition on the nationalist road stretch, a information of the under-construction embankment astatine Mylacaudu, adjacent Kottiyam, collapsed connected Friday.
The sidewall of the attack roadworthy operation caved in, leaving ample craters connected the work roadworthy beneath and trapping 4 vehicles, including a schoolhouse bus. All children and different passengers were safely evacuated and nary were injured successful the incident. Traffic done nationalist road towards Thiruvananthapuram came to a standstill aft the mishap and diversions were arranged later.
As per Shivalaya Construction Ltd, which is successful complaint of the construction, the 31.250-km road task connected NH-66 involves improvement of existing two-lane roadworthy to six-lane dual carriageway highway.
The task includes operation of a bypass to Kollam city, six flyovers, 1 obstruction overbridge, 10 underpasses, 4 caller large bridges, 3 insignificant bridges, and 42 culverts.
The task besides involves much than 1,00,000 sq m of reinforced world partition and much than 2.5 cardinal cubic metres of earthwork. While the operation institution maintains that the task was initiated lone aft conducting a technological study, section residents are demanding an contiguous inspection of the ungraded utilized successful the construction.
Approximately 500 metre of the roadworthy has sunk, and residents allege that their repeated complaints astir the site’s stableness were ignored. They accidental they are acrophobic astir the chosen operation method successful the susceptible terrain.
“Since it’s an country adjacent paddy fields, filling with ungraded is risky, and they are playing with the information of the public. The contiguous earth-filling method should beryllium abandoned successful favour of gathering pillar-supported structures to guarantee semipermanent stability,” said Sreenivasan, resident.
The National Highway agelong that collapsed astatine Maylakad adjacent Kottiyam successful Kollam connected Friday. | Photo Credit: SURESHKUMAR C
Following the incident, PWD Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas directed the Public Works Secretary to analyse the substance and question an mentation from the National Highways Authority of India officials inspecting the location.
AICC wide caput K.C. Venugopal, MP, said the incidental erstwhile again proved NHAI’s transgression negligence successful the operation enactment and helium alleged corruption successful the works.
