The two-lane, 300-meter-long bridge is widening due to the slats coming out at five places.
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Less than 2 years after the handover of the Babai River bridge in Gularia on the Gularia-Nepalgunj Postal Road, the bearing course above the span is eroding.
The two-lane, 300-meter-long bridge has been exposed to the elements at 5 places, creating a gap. Vehicles are at risk when the bridge's eroding elements come out. About 500 vehicles travel over this bridge daily.
The bridge, built at a cost of about Rs 350 million, has started to deteriorate in less than 2 years. Sapana Nirman Sevas Kathmandu won the contract for the construction of the bridge on Mangsir 22, 2074.
Hemant Kumar Roka, head of the Road Infrastructure Office, Bardiya, said that the bearing course is eroding due to insufficient slope thickness as per the standards, poor quality of concrete, and not covering the sloped area for at least 14 days when water is poured on it.
Head of the Bridge Division, Sabina Rana Bhat, said that the contractor company has been instructed to repair the bridge immediately by calling and writing to the contractor company after the flag lyre came out along with the bearing course. ‘The contract states that the company concerned must repair it for 5 years after construction,’ she said, ‘Since the design and construction work is the responsibility of the contractor company, it is the only one responsible for it.’ No problems have been seen so far on the old one-lane bridge built in 038 BS, which is connected to the newly built bridge.
