Hit by COVID-19, Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway work likely to continue till Dec. 2022
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Shortage of employees, diversion of business fuel cylinders used for welding triggered the delay
Work on the much-awaited 10-lane Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway challenge is anticipated to be accomplished solely by December 2022, owing to COVID-19.
After experiencing delay throughout final yr’s lockdown, the second wave of COVID-19 too noticed many employees returning to the security of their native villages. Besides, work on sure stretches had been hit by the emergency diversion of business fuel cylinders, that are used for welding functions, to meet the sudden spike in demand for oxygen to COVID-19 sufferers.
The work on the 117-km lengthy expressway challenge had begun in two packages – about 56 km-long route from Bengaluru to Nidaghatta in Maddur in May 2019 and 61 km-long route from Nidaghatta to Mysuru in December 2019. Buildcon Limited, which has been entrusted with the challenge, had been given a deadline of 30 months for completion.
In view of the tempo of work on the challenge final yr, officers had anticipated the expressway to be prepared by early 2022, although the deadline for completion was September 2022. “Now, it looks like the project work will continue till December 2022”, stated an official with the National Highways Division of Public Works Department (PWD), who’s overseeing the challenge.
While work had come to a grinding halt for nearly two to three months throughout the first wave final yr and progressed at a snail’s tempo for a {couples} of weeks even after the lockdown was lifted due to labour shortage, the second wave of COVID-19 now has additionally pressured a number of labourers to both steer clear of work for causes resembling testing optimistic and being suggested isolation. “Some workers had even returned to their villages”, the official stated.
The officers, nevertheless, are hoping to quickly tide over the disaster they’re dealing with on the labour entrance. “The supply of industrial gas will also be resumed after the situation eases”, they stated optimistically.
Around 8,000 employees are deployed for work on the 117 km-long stretch between Panchamukhi Temple close to the junction of the freeway and NICE highway in Bengaluru and Columbia Asia Hospital close to the junction of the freeway and Ring Road in Mysuru.
The expressway includes a three-lane carriage-way on both aspect of the median, moreover a two-lane service highway on both aspect of the access-controlled major carriage-way. The challenge additionally contains development of three elevated corridors together with one on the outskirts of Bengaluru moreover by-pass roads at Bidadi, Maddur, Ramanagaram, Channapatna, Mandya and Srirangapatna.
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