Shas­tri Boodan

Ten­ders to com­mence re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion work on the Per­se­ver­ance Road Riv­er Bridge, Ch­agua­nas would close on Mon­day. This was an­nounced by Sen­a­tor Richie Sookhai, Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port, on Fri­day night when he ad­dressed the Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (CCIC) busi­ness mix­er func­tion at the Pas­sage to Asia Restau­rant, Ch­agua­nas. 

The north­ern and south­ern ends of the bridge col­lapsed and have since caused mas­sive traf­fic jams com­ing in and out of Ch­agua­nas.

Sookhai said ten­ders to un­der­take re­pair of the bridge have gone out and should close in the com­ing week. Sookhai said he ex­pects the sit­u­a­tion to reg­u­lar­ize be­fore the start of the new school term.

He said  “A so­lu­tion will be rolled out in the next cou­ple of weeks and we would have a so­lu­tion to that short­ly. When it comes to the traf­fic we have been work­ing with all the stake­hold­ers and we will de­vel­op an ap­pro­pri­ate plan go­ing for­ward.”