Centre forms IIT expert panel on Kushei bridge

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday directed to constitute a high-level committee comprising an IIT Professor and a State Government-nominated technical expert to sort out all problems relating to the Kushei bridge at Belabahali in Keonjhar district.The Minister issued this order after a team of State BJP met him in New Delhi and apprised about the situation created after change of the location of the bridge. They too alleged that human rights were violated by the administration for the bridge.

The proposed team would choose an appropriate location for construction of the bridge.The BJP team comprising State vice-president Pratap Sarangi, general secretaries Manmohan Samal and Mohan Majhi, State executive member Sangita Kumari Singh Deo, treasurer Binod Das, secrtary Bhrugu Buxipatra, former MP Anant Nayak and Dr Krushna Chandra Mohapatra too met Human Resources Minister Smriti Irani, Coal and Energy Minister Piyush Goyel and Information and Broadcasting Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and discussed developmental issues relating to the State.