Different detailed project reports (DPRs) raised eye brows with regard to a bridge that is proposed on the Dhoy River in Chatra district.
A DPR of Jharkhand State Rural Road Development Authority of the proposed high level bridge on the river measures just 130.94 meters by putting across the bank to bank measurement of this river to 105 meters only. On the other hand another DPR of the special division of the same proposed high level bridge on this river measures length of the bridge as 246 meters while bank to bank measurement is 260 meters.
An official said, “When the river is one so how can there be such a difference in measuring its bank to bank as one DPR measures it to just 105 meters while another DPR measures it 260 meters?”
Similarly one DPR suggests length of the bridge as 130.94 meters while the other as 246 meters long. Executive engineer Surendra Kumar Tyagi reiterated that the DPR which speaks of bank to bank measurement as 105 meters and proposed bridge length as 130.94 meters is adequate, accurate and more economical.
The EE further said that he was aware of one more DPR of this proposed bridge on this river, which read its bank to bank measurement as 260 meter and length in DPR as 246 meter.
Tyagi had further said a probe was also done to find out as to how bank to bank measurement and length of the bridge in two DPRs varied insisting that he would stand by the DPR which reads bank to bank measurement as 105 meters and length as 130.94 meters only. Sources said the proposed bridge hangs in balance as the government is yet to take a final call on which of the two DPRs it should go with.
Local MLA of Chatra district Jay Prakash Singh Bhogta in his letter to Secretary Rural Development department has demanded that the proposed bridge on the river Dhoy be built with 246 meter length of the bridge as then only the river will be covered with bridge and residents will have then no problem.
The MLA wrote in his letter that this 246 meter length of the proposed bridge is in the interest of the people and the state.
