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Arrest Gammon India officials, says PJR

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Also wants GHMC additional commissioner suspended

Writes to Chief Minister seeking action
Officials accused of failure to take safety measures

HYDERABAD: Khairatabad legislator P. Janardhana Reddy on Wednesday urged Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to order the immediate arrest of Gammon India officials supervising the construction of Punjagutta flyover and suspend N.V.S. Reddy, GHMC Additional Commissioner.

He said the officials had failed to take safety measures leading to the collapse of the scaffolding of the flyover under construction.

In a letter sent to the Chief Minister, a copy of which was released to the media today, Mr. Reddy recalled that even Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy was reported to have expressed anger over the lack of safety measures which led to killing of two persons.

Gammon India officials should have ensured that compaction of soil was adequate, after it knew that the water board had dug up the stretch and laid a pipeline.

Official nailed

Tanikella Integrated Consultants (TIC), which was supervising the flyover project as a consultant of GHMC, should have also pointed out that the loose soil condition.

“It was the duty of Mr. N.V.S. Reddy, under whose supervision, the project was taken up, to point out the loose soil conditions to Gammon India to take sufficient precautionary measures,” he said. More over TIC had also written to Gammon India that the latter was not deploying proper manpower and equipment to complete the project in time.

The GHMC official had ‘neither taken any action” thus, he utterly failed in his duties.

Initiate action

The legislator reminded that had such an accident taken place in an industry, its owner would have been arrested after registration of a case.

But in case of the scaffolding crash people in charge of the fly over construction are yet to be arrested.

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