Expert team visits Gurupriya bridge, suggests redesigning of pillars

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Chitrakonda, April 18: Following reports of bending of four pillars of pile no-13 of the Gurupriya bridge at Chitrakonda in Malkangiri district, a three-member team visited the site Sunday.  

The team led by Dr NC Pal, Executive Engineer, Project Head, Bhubaneswar, Hemant Deo, Architect and Design Engineer, Mumbai and Abhijit Chakraborty, and Designer, Royal Infra, Kolkata visited the site.

Pal said efforts are on to find out a solution within 10-15 days to ensure that there would be no such incident in future.

Asked about the steps the construction company is going to take, Chakraborty said the company has decided to go ahead with the construction of the remaining piles by redesigning the structure so that there would be no such incident in future.

With the completion, the bridge will connect 152 cut-off villages of Chitrakonda block.

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