There has been a rift in the pillar of the bridge over the Parman river between Palasi and ICP Jogbani on the Indo-Nepal border in Araria district of Bihar. In the year 2023, the bridge was inaugurated by Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Traffic has been partially interrupted due to cracks in the bridge. The great negligence of the National Highway Authority of India is coming out in this construction, because this bridge connecting India Nepal was constructed only 4 years ago.
The pillar of the bridge on the Parman river on the four lane road leading to Integrated Check Post from Palasi block of Araria has been damaged. The pillar number B2’s pile cap has been damaged, the rod has broken into the water. It may be noted that this road goes to the integrated check post between India and Nepal. If this bridge is damaged, the traffic on the road going to the integrated checkpost will stop.
Part of bridge damaged
Due to the negligence of the contractor, the part of the pile cap of the bridge has been damaged in just 4 years, let us tell you that on 16 September 2023, the Government of India Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the Integrated Checkpost. So that trade between India and Nepal can be accelerated. A pillar of the bridge was damaged and the NHAI officials did not pay attention to this, which raises questions on the working style of NHAI.
Indo-Nepal Bridge connecting trade
NHAI is claimed to have monitoring roads and bridges continuously, thousands of heavy vehicles are transported daily from both sides of India and Nepal. The commercial relationship between the two countries is strong. Despite this, NHAI and Construction Company have not paid attention to this. This bridge was built by JKM Construction (Delhi). Project director Saurabh Kumar said that the matter has come to cognizance and the action plan will be prepared and its repair work will be started immediately.
‘Bridge will be repaired’
He said that the investigation team is coming and first of all our focus will be how it will be corrected. He said that it was the accountability of the contractor that if something malfunction has come, it should be corrected. The project director said that the bridge would have been damaged due to excess water, but it will be repaired.