People of Pratapnagar affected by construction of the Tehri dam staged a protest at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on Sunday against the protracted delay in construction of the Dobra-Chanthi bridge to connect Pratapnagar with New Tehri. The people demonstrating under the banner of Dobra-Chanthi Pul Banao Sangharsh
Samiti (DCPBSS) also submitted a memorandum addressed to the prime minister demanding swift construction of the bridge and a CBI inquiry into the anomalies in this project.
Speaking on the occasion the DCPBSS chief coordinator Rajeshwar Painuli said that information received under Right To Information Act had revealed major anomalies in the Dobra-Chanti bridge project. People in the Pratapnagar and other nearby areas have been facing severe inconvenience for years now due to the anomalies and delay in construction of this bridge across the dam reservoir. There have been cases of patients and women in
labour pain dying en route to the hospital due to thedelay caused in securing medical attention in absence of the bridge.
Prakash Bisht of DCPBSS informed that the committee has been holding public meets at various places to raise awareness on this issue. The next public awareness meet will be held at New Tehri on September 17, he added. It should be mentioned here that construction of this bridge was started in 2006 but has not yet been completed.