A vigilant social activist Manoj Prabhugaonkar, while interacting with Herald said in 2016, when the construction of this bridge re-started, the contractor of the NH66 (new) dumped more soil into the river with the plan of a four-lane bypass and started working on shortening the length of the bridge to cut down the cost. "Recently the contractor M Venkatarao, who has bagged the contract for the entire stretch of bypass NH road from Mashem till Charrasta, was seen pushing huge quantities of mud from the drilling of piers in the river to save additional cost on transportation at Mashem bridge site. The large-scale river filling has already changed the coastline and the new filling has speeded up the process and a huge sand bar has formed, thus blocking and diverting River Galgibag and River Mashem into the Arabian Sea," he said.