Tag: Gurupriya Bridge

Malkangiri: While the Works Department has assured that the Gurupriya bridge construction in Chitrakonda of Malkangiri will end by April end, it has been alleged that the construction company engaged for the purpose has not deployed adequate resources necessary for targeted completion of the project. Earlier on March 29, the Malkangiri Collector, in a letter […]

Chitrakonda: The deadline for the completion of Gurupriya bridge has been extended once again for the fifth time, informed Works Department chief  executive engineer NC Pal on Monday. Pal said that the work will be delayed due to some changes in the bridge design after a fall in the water level at Balimela Reservoir. “We […]

Malkangiri: The deadline for the completion of Guruprya bridge has been extended once again for the fourth time.  Works Department chief  executive engineer NC Pal informed about the development after reviewing the progress of the bridge at the site on Sunday. Sources said, the work of three slabs and girders is yet to be completed. […]

Malkangiri: The much-awaited Gurupriya Bridge, which will connect the cut-off areas with Malkangiri district, is likely to miss deadline again for the fourth time. As work for construction of the 910-metre long bridge is going on a tardy pace, doubts are being raised on completion of the project by February. Three steel girders of the […]

Bhubaneswar: After posters in Satkosia, Maoists have now released an audio tape opposing road construction works at several places including in Malkangiri district.The audio tape features the voice of CPI (Maoists) secretary of Malkangiri-Visakhapatnam division, Benu. In the audio tape, the rebels have termed the statements of BSF DG to wipe out Maoists after construction […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after assessing the anti-Naxal movement in cut-off areas of Chitrakonda of Malkangiri district, BSF ADG Arun Kumar met Odisha DGP RP Sharma at Bhubaneswar camp office today. A detailed discussion on joint operations and future strategies to curb Maoist menace in the State was held between Kumar and Sharma. The BSF ADG […]

Bhubaneswar: First September, then November and now February! The deadline for completion of the Gurupriya bridge, the lifeline of people residing in cutoff areas of Malkangiri district, has once again been extended to February, 2018. Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi on Wednesday informed that the Works Department, at the Unified Command meeting, has made it […]

Malkangiri: A team of two members is scheduled to visit Gurupriya Bridge site today to investigate the reason behind the collapse of the girders in the Bridge situated at Chitrakonda in Malkangiri district. The team will be accompanied by chief engineer of Works Department and on the basis of their report further legal steps will […]

Malkangiri:  In a major setback to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s ‘dream project’, a slab of the under construction Gurupriya bridge at Chitrakonda in Malkangiri here collapsed on Tuesday. Two labourers are feared to be trapped under the collapsed structure, sources said. According to reports, three girders of the bridge between 10th and 11 columns have caved […]

Bhubaneswar: Touted as Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s dream project, the Gurupriya Bridge construction in Malkangiri is now saddled with controversy with Forest department issuing notice to the construction agency for ‘illegal soil mining’. Kolkata-based Royal Infraconstru Limited has been served a show-cause for soil mining from near a hill that comes under the purview […]

Bhubaneswar: The construction work of Gurupriya Bridge in Malkangiri district will be completed by September informed Rural Development Minister Badri Narayan Patra, on behalf of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, in the Odisha Assembly yesterday. In total Rs 4957.47 crores has been allocated for the construction of the bridge. In reply to the progress of Biju […]

Bhubaneswar: Construction of the Gurupriya Bridge in the cut-off areas of Chitrakonda block in Malkangiri district is 67% complete till now and work on the bridge is targeted to be completed by June this year, chief secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi said today. Padhi who was chairing a review meeting of the Works department also took […]

Bhubaneswar: Construction of the Gurupriya bridge in the cut-off areas of Chitrakonda in Malkangiri district will be completed by June next year, chief secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi said today. “The construction work of the bridge is in full swing to ensure its timely completion”, he told media persons after presiding over the Unified Command meeting […]

With the bending of four pillars of the Gurupriya bridge in the cut-off area of Chitrakonda in Malkangiri district, the construction pattern of the bridge has been redesigned

The Odisha government is hopeful that the construction of the much-awaited Gurupriya bridge in the cut-off areas of Chitrakonda in Malkangiri district would be completed before schedule