Tallah bridge set to miss April deadline

The new Tallah bridge is far from ready and PWD engineers overseeing the project said the structure is unlikely to be opened before June-end.

Officials had earlier said the new bridge would be opened in April.

Engineers supervising the Rs 350-crore project in north Kolkata said only about 40 per cent of the work over railway tracks was over.

“A lot remains to be done before a 240m-long span over the tracks is covered with concrete deck slabs,” said an engineer.

Also, the construction of the two approach roads to the bridge — one from the Shyambazar-end and the other from the Paikpara-end — has not yet started.