Road link to Odisha severed after bridge over Khunti river caves in
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Ranchi/Daltonganj: The Pelol bridge, built over the Banai river on the Khunti-Simdega main stretch connecting Odisha, caved in on Thursday in Khunti district due to incessant rain over the last 48 hours.
This incident snapped the road connection, leaving many vehicles, including trucks, stranded. The movement of vehicles heading towards Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Chaibasa, and Kolkata was affected by the incident.
Torpa MLA Sudeep Gudia and Khunti MLA Ram Surya Munda visited the bridge to assess the situation. Gudia asked the administration to put up barriers on both sides of the bridge to prevent the movement of vehicles and people on it.
Munda said, "The bridge was quite old, and it will be rebuilt on a priority basis."
Khunti SDO Deepesh Kumari said that the district administration is diverting vehicles to other routes and added that the executive engineer was also asked to inquire into the incident.
Sources said that the bridge was built at a cost of Rs 6 crore in 2007-2008. Rakesh Munda, a transporter, said that heavy vehicles bound for Odisha usually took this route from Ranchi.
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"The bridge collapse led to the stranding of many trucks today from both sides. Many vehicles carrying perishable items will face losses," he said.
Premshahi Munda, state president of the Bharatiya Adivasi Party, claimed that the incident led to the stranding of over 5,000 freight trucks, demanding a high-level inquiry. He said, "Why do govt bridges crumble every monsoon? It testifies to corruption in such civil infrastructure," he said, adding that they will meet the chief secretary in this regard soon.
In Latehar district too, heavy rain washed away an under-construction diversion on state highway 9, around one kilometre away from the Maromar forest rest house. "Traffic got disrupted, and a couple of tourists had to remain stranded waiting for the gush of water to recede," said the forester in charge of Palamu Tiger Reserve, Paramjeet Tiwary.
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