BHUBANESWAR: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik will inaugurate the much-touted Gurupriya bridge on the river Gurupriya in Malkangiri district subsequent month, state works minister Prafulla Kumar Mallik stated on Monday after attending a evaluation assembly at the state secretariat. Construction paintings of the 910-metre-long bridge can be finished by means of end of this month.
CM Naveen reviewed the development of the bridge paintings in the assembly and requested the dept to hurry up the challenge paintings.
The bridge will connect as many as 151 villages around the Balimela reservoir with the main land of Malkangiri. It would be the lifeline for greater than 20,000 inhabitants of those cut-off space villages. People depend on the ferry boats to talk over with Chitrakonda or Malkangiri for clinical, advertising and different purposes.
The state government has confronted grievance for lengthen in the challenge. Former chief minister JB Patnaik had laid the foundation stone of the bridge in 1982. Later, Naveen once more laid the stone in 2000. The paintings, then again, could now not start for years because of Maoist threats.
The state government had to glide tenders eight instances for the challenge. Presently, a Kolkata-based company has been doing the development paintings underneath heavy security quilt, stated a senior officer of the works division.
Finally, the paintings of the challenge was started in 2014. The estimated cost of the challenge is Rs 172.58 crore. The government had set a target to complete it within 3 years, but the challenge paintings crossed cut-off date for greater than 3 times because of collapse of a part of the bridge.
It will also help the safety staff to tackle left wing extremists in the cut-off region. They can easily input into the cut-off space by means of their automobiles and behavior operations. Cut-off space is the strong-hold of the Maoists. The crimson rebels had ambushed Greyhounds, an elite commando drive to fight Maoists, on June 29, 2008, killing 38. They had even kidnapped the then Malkangiri collector R Vineel Krishna in 2011.
CM Naveen reviewed the development of the bridge paintings in the assembly and requested the dept to hurry up the challenge paintings.
The bridge will connect as many as 151 villages around the Balimela reservoir with the main land of Malkangiri. It would be the lifeline for greater than 20,000 inhabitants of those cut-off space villages. People depend on the ferry boats to talk over with Chitrakonda or Malkangiri for clinical, advertising and different purposes.
The state government has confronted grievance for lengthen in the challenge. Former chief minister JB Patnaik had laid the foundation stone of the bridge in 1982. Later, Naveen once more laid the stone in 2000. The paintings, then again, could now not start for years because of Maoist threats.
The state government had to glide tenders eight instances for the challenge. Presently, a Kolkata-based company has been doing the development paintings underneath heavy security quilt, stated a senior officer of the works division.
Finally, the paintings of the challenge was started in 2014. The estimated cost of the challenge is Rs 172.58 crore. The government had set a target to complete it within 3 years, but the challenge paintings crossed cut-off date for greater than 3 times because of collapse of a part of the bridge.
It will also help the safety staff to tackle left wing extremists in the cut-off region. They can easily input into the cut-off space by means of their automobiles and behavior operations. Cut-off space is the strong-hold of the Maoists. The crimson rebels had ambushed Greyhounds, an elite commando drive to fight Maoists, on June 29, 2008, killing 38. They had even kidnapped the then Malkangiri collector R Vineel Krishna in 2011.
Odisha CM Naveen to inaugurate Gurupriya bridge next month
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