Hyderabad:

A portion of an under-construction bridge in Telangana’s Peddapalli district collapsed on Monday night time. Two concrete girders, out of 5 between two pillars about 100 toes aside, collapsed round 9.45 pm after a powerful wind blew within the space. Locals apprehend the opposite three might give approach quickly too.

“Fortunately, a wedding get together of 65 folks on a bus handed by only one minute earlier and escaped being crushed by the concrete,” Sirikonda Bakka Rao, who was sarpanch of Odedu village – 600 metres away, until his time period lapsed two months in the past, informed NDTV.

The practically one-kilometre bridge throughout the Manair river was inaugurated by the then Telangana meeting Speaker S Madhusudhana Chary and native MLA Putta Madhu in 2016 and practically Rs 49 crore was sanctioned for it.

The work was meant to be accomplished in a 12 months and was meant to cut back the gap between three cities – Manthani, Parakal and Jammikunta – by about 50 km. The bridge was to attach Garmillapallu in Tekumatla mandal in Bhupalpalli to Odededu in Peddapalli.

The contractor had reportedly stopped the work inside a 12 months or two as he was below strain for commissions and the federal government was not paying out his dues, locals mentioned.

The identical contractor had constructed a bridge in Vemulawada that was washed away throughout heavy rain in 2021, Mr Rao mentioned.

The villagers had been utilizing the identical route, laying a mud street below the bridge, for the final 5 years.

“The price of the venture was escalated and final 12 months one other Rs 11 crore was added to the estimatd price with out even 60 per cent of the work being accomplished,” mentioned Sandeep Rao, a neighborhood.