Repairs of Assam's Saraighat bridge at snail's pace, jam to continue for months

Guwahati, April 28, 2019:

More woes for motorists in Assam as the District authorities of Kamrup (M) are livid that NF railway authorities are not taking full interest and using a small workforce.

This is noteworthy that old Saraighat bridge was under repair and what was supposed to be a war footing repairing work is now progressing like normal civil work which has left commuters in a fix as they have to sometimes wait 3-4 hours to cross the stretch.

An Angry Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Kamrup district, Kamal Kumar Baishya said that at the speed at which the NFR is moving to repair the bridge, the work will not even be complete in the coming months. People traveling through the bridge will face problems as repairing work is still going on. He further condemned the Railways for appointing only thirteen workers to repair the huge bridge and added that only 20% of the work has been completed. What this means is that the repair work may take 3-4 months.

It may be recalled that the old Saraighat Bridge was closed in  March 2019 for 90 days to carry out “massive” repair work.