Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 12: The JKPCC authorities today opened one tube of 4th Tawi bridge between Ware House and Bhagwati Nagar which was lying closed for want of important protection work for the last two and half months.
With the re-opening of this bridge partially, huge population of Jammu city heaved a sigh of relief. The untimely closure of this Tawi bridge from Ware House side to Bhagwati Nagar, providing vital link to Akhnoor Road and Poonch -Rojouri districts, had caused much inconvenience to the general public in the region while repeated floods in the river during this rainy season hampered the protection work at the bridge causing additional damage to the structures.
The work on Rs 17 crore project, consisting of raising concrete embankments/ protection walls along the approach road of this bridge over river Tawi was started during the last week of June by the JKPCC. With this decision, the pilgrims suffered a lot during Shri Amarnath and Budha Amarnath ji Yatra.
On August 7, when Tawi crossed danger mark, the JKPCC authorities had declared to open the bridge within one week, but the flood caused damage to the protection works. And this happened several times during the July-August floods.
A senior officer from JKPCC said that the work was commenced in June and it was expected to be completed within one and half month, well before the Monsoon season but as the Monsoon was advance this year, the problem was faced by the agency. He said that Rs 17 crore has been sanctioned for the project more than sixty percent has been consumed
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