PWD minister, Shivpal Singh Yadav on Friday instructed officials to build approach roads to all 107 bridges in the state till June next. Despite being complete the bridges in large numbers are lying unused in lack of approach roads since previous government.
While speaking at a review meeting attended by all zonal chief engineers and senior officials of state bridge corporation and PWD, Yadav asked engineers to select the construction sites carefully as the land acquisition for approach roads in many places connecting to 26 complete bridges was still to be done.
Warning that in case of wrong site selection, causing unnecessary financial burden to government, respective zonal chief engineer will be held responsible and action will be taken against bridge corporation officials, he said.
The officials in meeting told, in Azamgarh 5, in Faizabad 13, in Jhansi 11, in Kanpur 5, in lucknow 8, in Meerut 19, in Moradabad 3 and in Varanasi11 small and medium size bridges were awaited to be opened for public in lack of approach roads.
Yadav directed MD of bridge corporation to ensure routine quality check of the bridges currently under construction and fix responsibility of project managers in this regard. He asked PWD officials to see there were no pot holes on roads any where in state as he was about to launch inspection of roads from next month.
The minister of state for PWD, Surendra Patel was also present in the meeting. He informed that Rs 700 crore has been sanctioned by NABARD for construction of roads and bridges in current fiscal