Dwarka Expressway project: NHAI contractors seek permission to start work

GURUGRAM: Contractors for the Dwarka Expressway project have written to the respective district administrations requesting permission to resume construction work following NHAI’s appeal for relaxation of Covid-19 lockdown norms.
The contractors and NHAI officials have stressed that the work has already been delayed, and combined with the upcoming monsoon followed by months of peak air pollution when construction activities are banned, the entire year would be wasted.This will hurt the government as the project cost will shoot up .
On April 15, the ministry of home affairs ordered that construction work can resume from April 20 “where workers are available on site and no workers are required to be brought in from outside".
Following this order, NHAI told contractors that they could resume work provided district administration gives them a go-ahead.
“Around 1,600 workers are residing at our camps. The construction activities to be executed are highly dependent on machinery and involves construction within a closed camp premises, wherein, a single-point entry shall be permitted by ensuring complete sanitisation of the premises,” read L&T’s letter to the deputy commissioner.
For package 2 work, the contractor pledged, “our various staff and labourers are currently stationed at the project or its vicinity in various camps/guesthouses, and no outside staff shall be brought for operation of the construction activities.”
District administration claimed that these requests are being evaluated and appropriate directions are likely to follow.