The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has suspended its project director and abolished the service of a site engineer regarding the fall of National Highway -66 in Koriad in Malappuram district of Kerala. NHAI also said that debris would have to be cleaned on the project contractor or concession and rebuild the flyover at its cost.
On May 19, at a distance of 250 meters of the high highway in Kuriad, based on an evaluation by a team of experts, NHAI stated that the cave-in was most likely due to the inability of the foundation soil to support the high embankment load.
The 39.7-kimi project from Ramnatkara is 99 percent complete for the introduction of the Velchari bypass of NH-66. The total cost of the project is Rs 2,368 crore.
NHAI said that the team of experts, in which Dr. of IIT Delhi. Anil Dixit is included; Dr. of IIT-Kanpur Jimmy Thomas; Dr. of IIT-Gandhiinagar K Mohan Krishna and retired IIT-Delhi Professor GV Rao, the day the cave was formed. “The expert team visited the site on May 21 to analyze the failure and recommend the therapeutic measures. Initial assessment shows that the failure is due to the inability of the soil to support the high embankment load,” said an official.
Following this incident, NHAI, along with participating in future dialects as well as a show-causal notice for monetary punishment of Rs 11.8 crore, suspended the project’s Hyderabad-based discounted, KNR constructs and up to a year.
The official said, “The project manager of the concession was also suspended. The concession also needs to clean the debris and fix the loss by creating a new flyover at his own cost (about Rs 80 crore).
Apart from the concession, the project’s independent engineer, highway engineering advisor and its team leader were also suspended. On 29 May, NHAI issued a show-causal notice to designing the advisory Stratea Geosystem and HBS Infra Engineers and Security Advisor Mr. Infotech for debression for up to one year and a fine of Rs 20 lakhs.
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After the incident, on May 24, NHAI formed an additional specialist committee, including a retired CRRI scientist, an Associate Professor of IIT -Palakkad and an Associate Professor of the Director General of the Geological Survey of India (GSI), who assessed other potential weakens of the projects and other possible places of Slocal Provocates work, which is an Associate Professor of the Director General of the Geological Survey of India (GSI). To do.
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