The Saptari bridge, which was contracted by Kancharam Construction, the company of Purna Bahadur Tamang, Minister of State for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation of the federal government, has been lying idle for six and a half years.

Even the pillars of the bridge which was laid in July 2075 on Jita river in Tilathi Koiladi rural municipality-4 Chattitol, which could be built in one year, have not been erected.

Madhesh Chief Minister Satish Kumar Singh laid the foundation stone of the bridge when he was the chairman of the rural municipality. During this period, only one side of the iron rod is buried in the construction site .

The bridge on the Jandaul-Kusa road section has been started under the National Rural Transport Strengthening Program (SNRTP). The then District Technical Office had awarded the contract to build a 20.56 meter long and 6 meter wide bridge. On July 7, 2075, Kancharam Construction signed an agreement at a cost of 20 million 92 million to be able to build it by July 18, 2076.

The deadline was extended for the first time till November 18, 2078 after the work was not completed within the specified period. After the work was not completed in that period too, it was extended till June 25, 2080 . Since the construction did not proceed during this period as well, the contract period has been extended till March 2081 . Although there is only one month left for the deadline extended for the third time, the construction company has not started the work .

Since the bridge has not been built for a long time, the locals have been crossing the river by placing a bamboo bridge in the rains and a hump pipe in the winter. "The local people are suffering because the bridge has not been constructed for 6 and a half years," said Munilal Mukhia, the ward president of Tilathi Koiladi-4, "In the rainy season, we have to cross the river by making a bamboo bridge." Engineer Rahul Kumar Jha of the office, who has been looking at the technical work of the bridge, claimed that the physical progress of the bridge has reached 45 percent. He said that the contractor company has received payment of 1 crore 26 lakh rupees so far.

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Kancharam Construction's contract of nearly 2 billion in Saptari alone is incomplete But, he informed that the contractor did not work after the first year. The construction company claims that there is a problem in the design of the bridge by saying that the structures built on the left side of the bridge have drifted by one meter.

However, after the technical inspection of the work done, the infrastructure development office said that the construction company was not interested in doing the work again and again due to the necessary instructions and variations. Instead of starting the construction of the bridge, the construction company went to the Infrastructure Development Office with a request for a permit.

Kameshwarlal Dev, the representative of Kancharam Construction, submitted an application to the Infrastructure Development Office Saptari on December 23 and demanded that the rate be changed with compensation as he is unable to work at the old rate. It has been claimed in the petition that the design of the bridge has failed.

When one side structure of the bridge collapsed, the technicians of Infrastructure Development Office Sirha and Provincial Road Bridge Support Unit conducted a joint monitoring on 20th of January 2079 and concluded that the left leg of the bridge collapsed one meter compared to the right leg (span).

Then infrastructure development office Siraha wrote to the rural road bridge program to give detailed study and solution options, and the technicians of that program recommended that action be taken against the consultant firm saying that the problem was found during the ground test. 

Based on the same recommendation, Infrastructure Development Office Saptari wrote to Nepal Technical Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. Vaneshwar-10 Kathmandu, which designed the DPR of the bridge. To solve the foundation problem, the Provincial Road Bridge Assistance Unit suggested that 12 piles of 22 meters depth should be added.