AGARTALA, Oct 24 (TIWN): With the aim to complete the construction work in the given deadline, fly over work has resumed from Saturday to meet the deadline at Battala. However, the fly over construction work was suspended during the puja days to avoid traffic glitch. As Battala is the main junction of the city and caters crowd from all direction the fly-over construction was suspended during the puja days. Keeping in the view the rush gathers at the Battala junction during the puja days the decision was taken to stop the construction work during puja. Tripura’s first ever flyover construction started with an aim to contain heavy traffic congestion in 117 years old Tripura capital Agartala. The construction work for the flyover is expected to be completed within 30 months from now. The work progress in the fly over construction shows that the days are not so far when the regular traffic chaos which occurs at Battala will lessen down with the construction of the fly over. The construction work for building the flyover had kicked off at Agartala Battala with the engineers of the state government here, along with the Nagarjuna Construction Company agency staffs actively engaged to the work which is expected to be completed by 30 months.As many as 100 pillars will cover the 2.5 km fly over.The first ever 2-lane flyover in the capital city will lower the traffic jam and will make a smooth running of vehicles in the street.

The project was given to Hyderabad-based Nagarjuna Construction Company Limited through a national tender. Since they are already engaged in advanced construction work in Agartala like the NIT and others, the state government here flooring the tender had entrusted to undertake the work for building the flyover at the Agartala city.

Once fly over is constructed, vehicles from the Nagerjala bus stand will continue to ply on the same path which is expected to reduced the traffic congestion in the road.

The main motive of creating the Fly-Over Bridge is to seek solution to hectic traffic jam at Battala. As day by day the population and the number of vehicles are increasing, the problems arise in traffic system too.

The flyover, which would start from Drop Gate (Fire Service office), would touch Fire Brigade Chowmuhani via Battala. A subway of the fly over will be created up to Melarmath. As per the layout of the project, the Banayan tree and the temple at Battala will be remained untouched by the fly over