The Delhi government has finally decided to reconstruct the foot overbridge outside the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium which had collapsed just days before the commencement of the Commonwealth Games last October.
The Delhi government has finally decided to reconstruct the foot overbridge outside the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium which had collapsed just days before the commencement of the Commonwealth Games last October, causing a major embarrassment to the country.
"We have decided to reconstruct the foot overbridge, and the work is likely to begin soon," a top government official said.
He said the government is not going to spend any extra money and the contractor will have to bear the cost of rebuilding the bridge.
The 95-metre-long under-construction foot overbridge had come crashing down on September 21, injuring 27 people and causing a major embarrassment to the country in the run-up to the mega sporting event. The army had later built a temporary Bailey bridge which was removed after the Games.
The over Rs 5-crore project was contracted to private firm P and R Infraprojects Ltd by PWD. The company was blacklisted by the city government after the incident.
The official said the government may go for the same technology which was used to construct the collapsed FOB and may also allow British company Macalloy, which supplied parts for the structure, to participate in the construction of the new bridge.
"UK-based Macalloy has agreed to supervise the project. The technology used in the FOB has been used worldwide. The Macalloy is a renowned firm and they have agreed to supervise the project," said the official.
An inquiry panel, which probed the collapse of the FOB in November last year, had blamed the faulty construction methodology adopted by the contractor and held the public works department (PWD) responsible for supervisory failure.
The panel had blamed the PWD for "supervisory failures" while it held P and R Infraprojects Ltd for carrying out the project in a great hurry.
The panel had also blamed Macalloy for design constraints of the materials supplied by the firm for the FOB.
Asked whether action would be taken against any PWD officials who failed to supervise the project as pointed out by the two-member committee headed by former CPWD director general HS Dogra, the official said the issue was being examined at the "highest level".
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