Although it is taking time due to the iron of the old bridge, the entire connection work of Ballybridge on Sim River has reached its final stage.
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The work of installing a bailey bridge over the damaged bridge in the Sim River under the dam of the Kulekhani hydropower project, which was damaged by the floods and landslides caused by the incessant rains on October 11th and 12th, was completed on Tuesday.
Even though the work of connecting the Beilibridge across the bridge has been completed, the work of tightening the 'nutbolt' of the Beilibridge is going on.
"The work of connecting the belay bridge has been completed, the work of tightening the nutbolts is going on," said Navin Singh, head of the Directorate of Transport Infrastructure, Hetaunda, "because of the iron of the old bridge, it has taken some time to connect and tighten the nutbolts." The connection work has been started from June 28. A technician said that during the installation of the belibridge, a part of the belibridge was bent and the installation work was a bit delayed due to continuous rain in that area.
'Now vehicles can cross the bridge within 1-2 days,' said Dipendra Yadav, engineer of Gaurav Engineers Pvt. "We will test the bridge as soon as the nut bolts are tightened," said Singh, head of the infrastructure directorate. In order to install a belay bridge over the
bridge, two belay bridges, which are in a state of disuse in the Bhaise-Bhimphedi road section, have been removed and taken to the Sim River.
30 technicians and workers have been working for the past three weeks to install the belay bridge. The right and left side of the bridge, i.e. the access road, was built so that the Beilibridge was built.
Construction of concrete supports on the right and left sides of the Sim Khola concrete bridge has been done to keep the belay bridge. A 13-meter-long beibridge on the Ghate river and a 50-meter-long beibridge on the Mandukhola section of the Bhaise-Bhim Phedi road section were pulled down to build a beibridge on the Sim River.
'Since a 60-meter long belay bridge has to be put in the Sim river, two belay bridges have been pulled out,' said Singh, the head of the infrastructure directorate. Gaurav Engineering Pvt Ltd has taken the contract for 1 crore 88 lakh rupees to keep the belay bridge, make a paved access road and construct the damaged road around the bridge.
After Kulekhani was filled with heavy rains, when the gate was opened to stop the 'overflow', the road along with the bridge of Sim Khola in the lower part of Kulekhani Dam located in Indra Sarovar Rural Municipality-2 was damaged. Now the traffic has been diverted from the river.
