Rajan Mittal, who was removed from the MD of the UP State Bridge Corporation posts just on Thursday afternoon, had issued circular appointing 22 nodal officers to review the security measures as well as quality of work on the 183 on-going construction site of the corporation in the State
In wake of Tuesday’s incident in Varanasi, Mittal also asked general manager (quality control), HC Sharma to immediately visit Varanasi and Allahabad, and review the security measures. He asked Sharma to take assistance of Chief security officer, Arvind Dev, in this regard so all the standard guidelines on the safety measures must be kept at place before carrying out work.
Mittal claimed that he appointed 22 officers giving them task to visit the on-going sites and review whether all the safety and quality control norms have been followed or not and in case any negligence has been found, necessary action must be taken. He said that directions have been issued that no compromise on safety or quality control would be made and those officers found to be ignoring them, must be punished.
Meanwhile after Tuesday’s incident, the secretary of Indian Institution of Bridge Engineers (IIBE) Gopal Rai, had announced to carry out a workshop ``Innovative Technologies For Bridges’, here on May 25 and 26 at Vishveshwarya Bhawan to facilitate training of safety as well as quality control measures which should be taken during construction of bridges in the country. The workshop will be also attended by additional chief secretary (PWD), Sanjay Agarwal along with other senior officials of the PWD, UP State Bridge Corporation, UP Rajkiya Nirman Nigam, PWD, lucknow Metro Rail Corporation etc.