Mangalore: ‘Experts panel to review or repair the damaged Maravur bridge, to be repaired within 2 days’
Kota Srinivasa Poojary says the next decision will be taken based on this According to the report,
the necessary grants will be released in consultation with the CM.
A committee comprising experts on whether to rebuild or repair the Maravur bridge that collapsed on Tuesday will report within two days. According to the report, the necessary grants will be released in consultation with the CM, said Kota Srinivasa Poojary, the minister in charge of the district.
He examined the damaged of the Maravur bridge the construction of a new bridge beside the old Bridge is in progress. For which and a grant of Rs 50 crore to develop the bridge into a four lane road granted .Officials have been instructed to complete the bridge work quickly and complete it by the end of February.
He said the old bridge was intended to be repaired only after the new bridge was built because the old bridge had to be shut down for three months.
Pillar 8 of Maravur Bridge on Arathady State Highway-67 collapses. He said that at present the traffic on the bridge has been halted due to inappropriate traffic.
Mayor Premananda Shetty, Chief Guest Sudhir Shetty, Member Lohit Amin, Public Works Department and other officials were present.
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