Gammon gets the sack for delaying bridge, road works.

Taking strong exception to the inordinate delay in execution of works for a bypass road, the State Government recently cancelled the contract awarded to Gammon India.

The proposed project envisaged a 2.5-km, four-lane bridge and a 103-km, four-lane road, including a 48-km bypass road.

The road is proposed to be built from the Kaza junction near Guntur to join the National Highway 5 at Chinaoutpalli, beyond Gannavaram, after crossing the Krishna river upstream Kanakadurgamma Varadhi.

After implementation of the project, vehicles from Chennai bound for Kolkata need not touch the busy Vijayawada city.

Vijayawada MP Kesineni Srinivas (Nani) confirmed the development saying the Government had terminated the agreement because of an inordinate delay in execution of works.

THE HINDU