E. Sreedharan to supervise, eight months time for completion
The State government will demolish and reconstruct the arterial flyover bridge at Palarvattom in Kochi.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Principal Advisor E. Sreedharan had agreed to supervise the project. The government hoped to complete the project within eight months. The Supreme Court had permitted a new bridge in place of the defunct one.
He said political corruption and criminal lack of oversight had resulted in the shoddy construction. A New Delhi-based private firm had executed the work during the tenure of the previous United Democratic Front government.
Scores of cracks had developed in the construction a few months after it was opened to traffic. Technical experts doubted the structural integrity of the bridge. They advised the government to decommission it in the interest of…
