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| Sopore bypass bridge likely to open by August | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, May 4 : The Sopore Bypass Bridge in north Kashmir's Baramulla district is likely to open by August this year almost after two decades. The work on this 226-m bridge had missed many deadlines in the past. The work on the bridge which is being executed by Beacon, a project of the Border Road Organisation, was to be completed in 2008.
According to official sources, the Sopore bypass bridge was initially approved in 1980's, it then got stalled for some years and work was again started in 1992-93.
Minister for Public Works Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari said the 226-meter long bridge will be thrown open by August this year and there will be no more delay in the work as I am personally monitoring its progress.
However, the minister said that Border Road Organization (BRO) will be handing it over to R&B Department by July end and it would be commissioned in August. The completion of bridge will also help ease frequent traffic jams in the Sopore town.
Minister has said that state government is committed to complete the bridge before the fruit season as it not only provides alternate connectivity to Kupwara and Baramulla, but also connects country's second largest Fruit Mandi through the shortest link, as the fruit growers have been anxiously waiting for decades for its completion. Bukhari has maintained that the government has constituted a high-level committee to monitor progress of some crucial projects in Roads and Building (R&B) sector including Sopore Bypass Bridge, Parimpora-Narbal road, Srinagar-Qazigund stretch of the highway, Mughal Road and other important roads in Srinagar city.
Early times has learnt from authoritative sources that government has decided to remove the bottlenecks from crucial road links while on the other up gradation and black-topping would be carried out simultaneously to ensure hassle-free movement of traffic.
The up gradation work has already been kick-started in several parts of the city, which saw massive devastation of public infrastructure in September 2014 floods, Bukhari said.
The construction work was supposed to be completed within four years and bridge was to be thrown open in 2008. However, it could not meet the deadline forcing the present Government to take up the matter with the concerned authorities in the Government of India.
It is pertinent to mention here that the work was stalled again and the construction of the bridge was resumed in 2004 by M/S Mir Constructions after they got the contract from Border Road Organization (BRO).
The construction work of the bridge was awarded to Beacon for Rs 7.86 crore during 2004 and completion date was initially fixed in March 2008. |
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