NHAI calls for early submission of Hero Honda Chowk flyover audit report
India, July 22 -- The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has asked the Central Road Research Institute (CRRl) to expedite the audit report of the Hero Honda Chowk flyover, which has caved in four times since it was opened for traffic in 2016, officials said.
Earlier, NHAI wrote to the CRRI on July 16 and called for the early submission of the audit report since two fast lanes of the Hero Honda Chowk had been barricaded from Jaipur to Delhi side, and was leading to traffic jams on the busy stretch.
The NHAI had asked CRRI to conduct a structural audit of the Hero Honda Chowk flyover on January 10 after a portion of the bridge on the extreme right lane from Jaipur to Delhi lost plaster and concrete due to which iron bars were exposed and the road underneath the flyover was visible from the 3 feet by 2 feet hole.
The communique by the highway authority sent on July 16 said that NHAI had extended full cooperation to CRRI during the site visits held in March 2025.
"It is to inform that, pending report submission of CRRI, approximately 2 fast lanes (towards the median side) on RHS (from Jaipur to Delhi) are cordoned off, thereby creating traffic congestion during peak hours," the letter by NHAI project director, Akash Padhi, Dwarka PIU stated.
When asked about the matter, an official of CRRI said that they had received the work of conducting a structural audit of the Hero Honda Chowk flyover in April, and in May and June they carried out testing of the samples taken from the flyover....
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