Probe begins in collapse of Hero Chowk flyover

Gururgam: Probe has begun over why the portion of the Hero Chowk flyover collapsed in less than a year. A three-member technical team constituted by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) inspected the Hero Honda Chowk flyover on Sunday, following the collapse of a part of the road surface on May 8.

The committee was constituted on May 10 to probe two incidents of damage to the road surface, which has taken place in a one-year span. The committee first visited the campsite of the contractor at Hero Honda Chowk. Earlier the Gurugram police had registered an FIR against the contractor and certain officials of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) in the case of the portion of Hero flyover being caving in.

The case has been registered under the sections of 334 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 34 (common purpose) of the Indian Penal Code. On May 8 the portion of Hero flyover in Gurgram had collapsed for the second time.

There are claims that how in order to hasten the process of opening the flyover, most of the basic processes of construction were flawed. Facing flak over the entire incident the public officials have as of now refused to comment on the matter.

The state of art of flyover was completed that was built at an approximate cost of Rs 200 crore.

The construction of the flyover had brought in a lot of laurels for the engineers, contractors and the public officials as it was completed well before its deadline.

The flyover was a plan of revamping the Delhi-Jaipur highway where the NHAI and the Haryana government has invested Rs 1400 crores in recent years to build various flyovers and underpasses along the busy route.

Controversies began to emanate soon after the commuters started using the flyover as there were reports of materials coming out on various occasions.