The road department says - ”The construction worker left work and left, he is not in contact”.
Not a day goes by without traffic jams in Gwarko for those who commute through the Koteshwar-Kalanki road section. In the evening and in the morning, you have to rush to cross this road. When the construction of the flyover at Gwarko started, the place became chaotic from that day.
The construction of the flyover has been started from February 2078 to be completed within two years. But it's not over yet. The construction of that section has been stopped for a month. The reason for this is that the contractor who is responsible for the construction of the flyover is not in touch.
Earlier too, the work was stopped for four months due to rains . Prabhat Kumar Jha, director of the quality, research and development center under the road department, said that the builders have not been in contact for the last one month. He says that although work is being done intermittently, the pace has not increased.
"Construction businessmen have become contactless by stopping the work of flyover," he said, "We have sent 'notice to correct' twice to the construction businessmen." "Contractors have been warned that the contract can be broken and sent to the blacklist," he said.
workers are not seen at the construction site at this time. If it doesn't work, further process of action will be taken after discussion with the road department, he said. "We have done what we have to do, there is no problem from us," he said. Contract Ashish-Parallel-Religer JV has taken the contract of flyover for 17 crore 6 lakh 88 thousand rupees . Although it is a joint contract, the work is being done by Railiger Construction.
According to the initial agreement, the construction of the flyover should be completed by February 12, 2080. But after the work was not completed within that time, the deadline was extended for the second time until June 2081. As the work could not be completed within that time, the deadline was last December 9. After the work was not completed within that time, the work was done with a fine from January 10. After the builder promised to complete the work by the end of March, the project was carried out with fines .
Vishal Karki, project manager of Ashish-Parallel-Religer JV claimed that there is no working environment because of the director of quality, research and development center. "The current head has repeated the work without having faith in the work done by the previous project head (director)," he said, "everything that has been tested has been made to be tested again and again with the intention of delaying the work, thus making the work difficult. Karki is accused of not being allowed to work by showing bad things over and over again. "We are delaying the construction by saying that the design of the existing craft barrier is not valid," he said They claim that they did not interfere in the work. "The center has to check its quality as specified," he said, "We have not asked to do a new test, we have only asked to test the existing issues." "It is estimated that another 150 million will be needed," he said. He said that there is a problem when the contracting agency does not create a working environment while they are ready to work even after paying the fine.
The construction progress on the flyover is 82 percent so far. 13 months into the contract, work was halted due to problems with the design. It has been contracted under the Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) model. Therefore, the work from design to construction should be done by the contracting company.
When technical problems were noticed during construction, the businessmen stopped the main work and 'revised the design'. Because of this, the businessman claims that the construction has been delayed . The project had claimed to bring the flyover into operation before Dasain. A 540 meter long flyover will be built with a
traffic structure. Even though the work of making the ramp has been started by placing concrete panels and special 'Polymer Reinforcement' at the sides, it has not been completed . The ramp will be up to 10.2 meters high. The Center says that the 40-meter ramp built towards Satdobato should be removed and put back. The center says that there are problems even in the works that have been constructed.
