SANGUEM: Although started in 2019, the four-lane Dando bridge at Sanguem is awaiting completion and people wonder when it will be made operational.
Estimated to cost Rs 19 crore, work on the bridge started soon after the foundation stone was laid by GSIDC. However, it was stuck by the pandemic and work came to a grinding halt.
Following former MLA Prasad Gaonkar’s persistent follow up, work on the bridge started after one year.
However, as the contractor moved the machinery to another place, people agitated thinking that the work had stopped once again and hence the government was forced to again start work on the bridge.
Surprisingly as the work is nearly completion now, the contractor has suddenly stopped all work and in fact moved the machinery to another place.
Councillor Meshu D’Costa who had earlier launched an agitation to start the work on the bridge, accused the government of toying with the poor people of the area.
“Four years have been wasted and it does not appear that the work will be completed by early 2024 as was targeted,” he said adding that it would not even be completed by 2025.
D’Costa has threatened to launch another agitation if the government does not immediately start the work on the Dando bridge.
The need of this new bridge is very much needed as the existing bridge that was constructed during the Portuguese era is threatening to collapse any moment.
